Flyfisher's Revelations: Practical Tips, Strategies, and Wisdom from Fifty Years Experience [Hardcover]

A FLYFISHER'S REVELATIONS is a captivating and provocative practical memoir, long awaited by legions of the author's fans. Ed has been a passionate and highly successful fly-fisherman and conservationist for more than half a century. Now, drawing on decades of carefully kept diaries and journals, his book is both the chronicle of a life devoted to fly-fishing and a unique sharing of detailed tips, tactics, strategies, and personal anecdotes that reveal why he has earned the reputation for unparalleled successes. He tells which flies have produced most effectively; how to choose and tie flies that work best; when and how to fish the dry or wet fly, nymph, midge, or streamer; the importance of approach and presentation. There is a special chapter on the Adams, his favorite fly and one on which he has taken more than 70% of the trout he caught on a dry fly. He also offers insight into the beauty, humility, and quiet rewards of a life spent in the embrace of nature and the pursuit of wild trout. 

This book is an essential read for all fly-fishers, novice and advanced. 
 

 ED VAN PUT has been an avid fly-fisherman for more than fifty years. He worked as a fisheries professional with New York State for most of those years and wrote several important books on fly-fishing and its history and development in the Catskills: The Beaverkill, Trout Fishing in the Catskills, and The Remarkable Life of James Beecher. His articles have appeared in The Conservationist, Trout, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, Kaatskill Life, and elsewhere. He lives in the Catskills with his wife, Judy. “A Flyfisher’s Revelations is a lovely read, full of the honesty, honor and humility of a true gentleman angler. Van Put appreciated the beauty and mystery of Nature and never tired of the magic of his immersion in the beauty of a l3#