The Total Flyfishing Manual: 307 Essential Skills and Tips

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CONTENTS
TOOLS
	1 Build a Pro Trout Kit
	2 Seine to Match the Hatch
	3 Know What You’re Casting
	4 Dress Appropriately
	5 Beware Bargain Bugs
	6 Handle Tiny Flies
	7 Get Versed in the Mighty Muddler Minnow
	8 Mod Your Muddler (and More)
	9 Make a Dry Run
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: PARACHUTE ADAMS
	10 Save Your Eyes Two Ways
	11 Get the Light Stuff
	12 String ‘Em Up
	13 Mind Your Grip
	14 Play with Fatal Attraction
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: WOOLLY BUGGER
	15 Mint a Mini Fly Box
	16 Float Big when the Going’s Tough
	17 Check Your Rod Speed
	18 Avoid Getting Lost
	19 Get a Bead on the Big Bugs
	20 Dip Some Rubber
	21 Ante Up with Ants
	22 Get On the Dirt with Hoppers
	23 Let Your Bugs Breathe
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: HARE’S EAR
	24 Tackle Toothy Fish
	25 Pick a Cold Remedy
	26 Get Steamy
	27 Egg Steelhead On
	28 Matchbook Your Midges
	29 Get Crabby in Winter
	30 Make like Bigfoot to Stay Warm
	31 Wade Over to the Hockey Section
	32 Join the Bass Bug Revolution
	33 Throw the New Bass Classics
	34 Go Large for Largemouths
	35 Carry Everything You Need Around Your Neck
	36 Dunk Some Wool
	37 Paint it Black
	38 Go Weedless
	39 Play the Ultraviolet Card
	40 Stock the Extras
	41 Build a Throwback Fly Box
	42 Check the Airways
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: STIMULATOR
	43 Wax On
	44 Repair Waders in the Field
	45 Spike It
	46 Find a Hole with Alcohol
	47 Protect Your Bootlaces
	48 Get Wired (or Not)
	49 Get in Line
	50 Take the Lead
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: COPPER JOHN
	51 Check Your Leader
	52 Change on the Fly
	53 Hit the Bar Before You Strip
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ELK HAIR CADDIS
	54 Duck Tangled Lines
	55 Reduce Fly-Line Memory with a Coffee Can
	56 Understand Your Fly Reel
	57 Get the Inside Scoop on Fly Reels
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FLASHBACK PHEASANT TAIL
	58 Fix Your Holy Cork
	59 Craft a Makeshift Mini Caster
	60 Perform Emergency Guide Repairs
	61 Get Greasy when It’s Cold
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: BLUE WINGED OLIVE
	62 Go Fiberglass First
	63 Take Care of Your Guides
	64 Try a Cane Rod
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: PRINCE NYMPH
	65 Turn Japanese with Tenkara
	66 Make a Poor Man’s Case
	67 Cast, Don’t Wiggle
	68 Store Gear for a Winter’s Nap
	69 Pack for Your Flight
TYING
	70 Build the Basic Tying Kit
	71 Get Hooked (In the Details)
	72 Take a Dry-Fly Anatomy Lesson
	73 Pick Your Eye Candy
	74 Fluff Them on the Cheap
	75 Tie One on the Fly
	76 Organize Your Fibers
	77 Get Saturated
	78 Wrap It with Ice Dub
	79 Make Your Own Dubbing
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ZONKER
	80 Make Glow-in-the-Dark Flies
	81 Embrace Modern Materials
	82 Stop the Bloodbath
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: SAN JUAN WORM
	83 Be a Color Guard
	84 Stick to It
	85 Hack a Hellgrammite
	86 Bob for Glory
	87 Tie a Hopper Nymph for Non-Hopper Season
	88 Craft a Clouser Minnow
	89 Go Nude
	90 Follow the Rule of 3
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: GIRDLE BUG
	91 Turn Purple
	92 Raid Your Easter Basket
	93 Tint Your Own Tails
	94 Spin the Fly Wheel
	95 Do Your Prep Work
	96 Fish with Protection
	97 Slap Some Elk Skin
	98 Tie Drab Colors to Hook Bonefish
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: MARCH BROWN
	99 Craft a Money Bunny
	100 Let Nature Be Your Tying Muse
	101 Stay Classy
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: MUDDLER MINNOW
	102 Throw This Joint
	103 Tie an Easy, Deadly Mouse
	104 Tie a Five-Minute Fly
	105 Flash Your Stack
	106 Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
	107 Loop that Bunny
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: CLOUSER MINNOW
TECHNIQUES
	108 Conquer Trout Camouflage
	109 Let Bad Casts Go
	110 Control Your Wrist
	111 Point Your Shots
	112 Fish the Cycle
	113 Dress a Dry Fly Right
	114 Hunt for Shadows
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: DAVE’S HOPPER
	115 Match the Motion to the Meal
	116 Play the Angles
	117 Don’t Barge In
	118 Mow the Lawn
	119 Tie an Arbor Knot
	120 Don’t Be That Guy
	121 Teach a Kid to Fish
	122 Outfit Your Kid
	123 Play in the Dirt
	124 Wade for Your Life
	125 Follow Bubbles
	126 Fish with Your Eyes
	127 Steer Big Trout Away from Trouble
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ZUG BUG
	128 Be Ready for the Strike
	129 Use the (Net) Buddy System
	130 Try Tenkara
	131 Build Accuracy
	132 Don’t Spook the Fish
	133 Cast the Whole Line
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: MARCH BROWN WET
	134 Tie an Orvis Knot
	135 Strip into a Hamper
	136 Rig Two Flies
	137 Avoid Double-Haul Mistakes
	138 Perfect the Slack-line Cast
	139 Fire the Curve Cast
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: MICKEY FINN
	140 Go Blind for Carp
	141 Go Long
	142 Strip Underwater
	143 Dupe Wary Trout at Close Range
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: DECEIVER
	144 Take a Shot at Shad
	145 Focus on the Feeders
	146 Buck the Wind
	147 One-Two Punch a Pike
	148 Fly Cast Underhanded
	149 Stop that Cast!
	150 Keep the Arc
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ROYAL WULFF
	151 Cast in Tight Quarters
	152 Win the End Game
	153 Get the Tuna Tune-up
	154 Don’t Wiggle Your Tip
	155 Become Ambidextrous
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: BLACK STONEFLY
	156 Fly Cast to a Moving Fish
	157 Perfect the Parachute Cast
	158 Tie the Blood-Knot Dropper
	159 Help Catch-and-Release Trout Survive
	160 Cast in the Wind
	161 Have a Low-Water Game Plan
	162 Master the Steeple Cast
	163 Take a Knee
	164 Tie the Improved Turtle Knot
	165 Lose the Tailing Loop
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ZEBRA MIDGE
	166 Be a Two-timer
	167 Do the Panfish Crawl
	168 Get Hands-on
	169 Perfect Your Pairings
	170 Avoid Double Trouble
	171 Join the Board
	172 Jam It
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: KRYSTAL SPINNER
	173 Tie a Tippet to a Fly
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: SALMON EGG
	174 Tie a Tippet to a Leader
	175 Mix in Metal
	176 Mimic an Escaping Crayfish
	177 Practice Proper Bass Popping
	178 Make It a Slow Dance
	179 Use the Right Bass Leader
	180 Find a Damsel in Distress
	181 Sink that Dry Fly
	182 Wait for the Weight
	183 Catch Heavy Trout on a Light Tippet
	184 Conquer the Basic Carp Presentation
	185 Swing a Current Seam
	186 Make Easy Measurements
	187 Strike Silver
	188 Strip Set the Toothers
	189 Avoid Loose Ends
	190 Get Hitched
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FOAM BASS BUG
	191 If It’s Broke, Fish It
	192 Drift a Fly with a Dry Leaf
	193 Pop with Confidence
	194 Try Tube Flies for Stream Trout
	195 Catch Trout with a Muddler
	196 Fish the Thin Red Line
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: EPOXY SCUD
	197 Master the Mend
	198 Mend Midair
	199 Don’t Fear the Rear
	200 Reach for Success
	201 Make a Figure 8
	202 Get an Indicator Education
	203 Drift and Lift
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FOAM BEETLE
	204 Try High-Sticking
	205 Survive the Steelhead Jam
	206 Go Shooting for Chromers
	207 Match a Steelie’s Main Course
	208 Do the Chuck ‘n’ Duck
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: GRIFFITH’S GNAT
	209 Cash In On Summer’s Monster Hatches
	210 Read the Weather
	211 Kick Off with Tricos
	212 Check Your Double Timing
	213 Rely On Double
	214 Run a Search Party
	215 Make the Season’s End Memorable
TACTICS
	216 Prospect a Trout Pool
	217 Identify Trophy Waters
	218 De-Funk and Re-Funk Your Carp Bugs
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: CRAZY CHARLIE
	219 Dunk a Spoon Fly
	220 Pick Pockets for Trout
	221 Deliver a Wounded Dry
	222 Make a Seine
	223 Dapple a Fly
	224 Get Shocked
	225 Gink and Sink for Smutting Trout
	226 Find Your Rhythm
	227 Drown a Hopper Fly
	228 Play in the Night Light
	229 Get Down—Slightly
	230 Entice a Carnivore
	231 Hook Big Bronze on Tiny Bugs
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: SNEAKY PETE
	232 Success with Attractor Dry Flies
	233 Go Low and Slow
	234 Stick ‘Em High
	235 Box In a Redfish
	236 Form a Float Plan
	237 Score While You Wait
	238 Beat the Tuna Death Circle
	239 Fish the Highs and Lows
	240 Learn the Czech Trick
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: INCHWORM
	241 Dissect the Perfect Trout Stream
	242 Try a French Twist
	243 Make a Curly Q
	244 Inch a Midge in Still Water
	245 Master the Slow Retrieve
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: CHERNOBYL ANT
	246 Join the 20-20 Club
	247 Drift an Irish Dibbler
	248 Pick a Pickerel Fight
	249 Gage Up for Tarpon
	250 Use Outsize Flies for Outsize Trout
	251 Slap the Hamster
	252 Flycast to a Fickle Pond Trout
	253 Section Off Your Steelhead
	254 Go Downtown for Big Browns
	255 Resist the Urge to Re-Cast
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FLESH FLY
	256 Give It a Rest
	257 Spot and Stalk Wild Trout
	258 Scout a Trout Run
	259 Sit Still
	260 Uncover Dark Secrets
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: BANGER
	261 Catch a Breeder
	262 Sight-Fish Spooky Trout
	263 Find a Trout in the Dark
	264 Plot a Late-Night Stalk
	265 Don’t Get Glued to the Bottom
	266 Cast Into the Grass
	267 Say Sí to the Spanish Combo
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FOAM ANT
	268 Let the Birds Come to You
	269 Do the Wet Fly Shuffle
	270 Catch a Killer
	271 Start A Frenzy
	272 Don’t Waste the Good Stuff
	273 Ice Out a Trout
	274 Get a Spring on Streamers
	275 Tie a Non-Slip Mono Loop
	276 Lift and Lower
	277 Swim a Spring
	278 Fish an Early Spring Pond
	279 Sharpen Your Skills with ‘Gills
	280 Cut some Slack
	281 Find Hot Tail (Race) Action
	282 Place to a Peacock’s Aggressive Side
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: ADULT DAMSEL
	283 Know When to Be Dull
	284 Have a Brown Trout Summer
	285 Bait and Switch a Bill
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: FLASHTAIL WHISTLER
	286 Drop and Wiggle for Bronzebacks
	287 Stay with Your Trout River this Fall
	288 Hook More Rising Fish
	289 Choose Your Tailrace Flies
	290 Fish Around the Leaves
	291 Luck Into a Laker
	292 Don’t Knock the Whitefish
	293 Deodorize for Permit
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: MOUSE RAT
	294 Go Skiing in a River
	295 Land an Autumn Trophy Brown
	296 Land Your Dream Muskie
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: TARPON BUNNY
	297 Catch a Stone Cold Trout
	298 Understand the Snowfly’s Lifecycle
	299 Pop by Species
	300 Bang Some Bucketmouths
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: DEAD DRIFT CRAYFISH
	301 Catch Smallies with Salty Flies
	302 Pick a Prime Steel Spot
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: GURGLER
	303 Rattle a Speck
	304 Plot a DIY Bonefish Attack
	305 Annoy a King
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: PERMIT CRAB
	306 Sneak Up On a Carp
	307 Wrangle Old Rubberlips
	ESSENTIAL FLIES: GAME CHANGER
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