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Our where-to stream and ocean guides will help you find great fishing spots, and our how-to fishing books will teach you how to flycast, tie flies, and match the hatch, and even how to make your own bamboo or graphite fly rod

Fly Rod Building Made Easy

A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making a High-Quality Fly Rod on a Budget

Art Scheck

Art Scheck revolutionizes the exclusive world of fly rod building by teaching the beginning rodmaker how to build a rod that will catch fish. It doesn't have to be expensive. It doesn't have to be difficult. With a few hours of work, this entertaining book and its 225 step-by-step photos will walk you through all you need to know and do from buying the parts you'll assemble to putting that last coat of finish on your gleaming new rod. Art Scheck makes this arcane art accessible, enjoyable, and affordable.

"Scheck takes you by the hand and leads you step by step, in such a clear and simple way that your first attempt is guaranteed to be a success. He moves from a clear overview to even clearer specifics and details for every operation involved in fly rod construction. For anyone who has ever contemplated assembling his own fly rod this is the book. He removes the mystery and makes it fun, not science."
--Ed Jaworowski, author of The Cast and Troubleshooting the Cast



$24.95 (Can. $35.99)
0-88150-511-0
8.5 x 11, 224 pages, paperback, 225 b & w photographs, index