The Little Black Book of Fly Fishing

An Advanced Course in Fly Fishing

The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing was to demystify and un-complicate the tricks and tips that make a great trout fisher. There are no complicated physics lessons in that book. Rather, The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing offered a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, and selecting flies.

In this, The Little Black Book of Fly Fishing, authors Kirk Deeter and Chris Hunt take you to the next level, building upon what Deeter and Charlie Meyers did in The Little Red Book. The Little Black Book will helps fly fishers build upon what they learned in the Little Red Book. Read this valuable, thought-provoking guidebook, and you'll be at the point where you'll be catching fish when no one else is, and you'll know exactly why you are. Advanced casting, presentation, reading the water, fly selection, and much more, including proper gear selection, are all covered. The table of contents, below, explains it all.

The Little Black Book of Fly Fishing
 
Acknowledgments
 
Foreword
 
Introduction
 
Part 1: CASTING
 

1. A double-haul is really important, and not just in the salt
2. Teaching someone new? Start with Tenkara
3. Everybody needs a casting lesson. Everybody.
4. Casting longer leaders
5. ‘Casting’ nymphs under indicators
6. Get a practice rod
7. How to cast a 15-foot leader (and why you should)
8. Casting at taillights
9. The cast killer
10. Your casting stroke follow joints by size
11. Challenge your cast
12. Great casts are the ones that get bit
13. Score your casts like golf strokes; fewer is better
14. The sand-save cast
15. A reach cast is worth a thousand mends
16.  Five feet short on purpose (the linear false cast)
17. Be Lefty in the salt, and Rajeff in the fresh
18. Give yourself a “D”
19. Beating wind
20. Don’t out-kick your coverage

 
Part 2: PRESENTATION
 

1. Fast strip for saltwater predators
2. A swirl, not a rise
3. Casting streamers upstream
4. Carp: Not just for city kids
5. Step out of your comfort zone
6. What are the birds after?
7. The potato chip fakeout
8. Why natives matter
9. But I still love brown trout best
10. Micro-drag: where you stand matters
11. You’ll never beat a fish into submission
12. Take it to the lake
13. Float tubes and garbage cans
14. Food never attacks fish
15. A case for the dry-fly snob
16. Go Deep in...
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