New from fishing author Ed Quigley, Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer, packs decades of fly-fishing know-how into one handy volume.  Novices and veteran anglers will value Quigley’s basics for choosing everything from rods to vests to flies, plus his ingenious old-timer tips, secrets and highly entertaining fly fishing anecdotes.

Essential type of gloves for fishing for steelhead in 36-degree water?  The “one-two” secret for a 40-foot cast that lands just above the hatch? Best all-weather fishing hat? How to create a wiggle nymph and when to use it?  Where to aim your streamer for hooking trout in fast water?  How to catch and release a salmon without a net  How to enjoy Wooly Buggers, whiskey and other secrets of winter fishing?  Find all these answers and hundreds more in Fly Fishing Advice from an Old Timer.

Published October 2009
326 pages
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Ed Quigley is the author of  In The Company of Rivers.  His writing has appeared on the Op-Ed page of the Chicago Tribune, NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and Wall Street Journal; his stories in Fly Fisherman, Yale Anglers’ Journal, and the Art of Angling Journal. He lives in Lansdale, PA. 
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