One of Kipling's most enduringly popular works, this classic tale of the sea and fable of a boy's initiation into the world of men is accompanied by a brand-new Introduction. A millionaire's spoiled son learns a valuable lesson when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the crude life and hard work of his taunting rescuers.

Updated information on tackle, baits, and casting techniques and new photos and knot-tying illustrations. Fishing sandbars, points, jetties, scalloped beaches, and inlets. Species include bluefish, striped bass, red drum, weakfish, spotted sea trout, flounder, sharks. Eric B. Burnley has been fishing along the Atlantic Coast for over fifty years. A freelance outdoor writer and photographer based in Delaware, he also gives fly-fishing seminars and...

Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die is the latest offering in the bestselling Fifty Places series. Chris Santella's first book, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, has more than 100,000 copies in print, and Santella-now a regular fly-fishing contributor to the New York Times and many angling periodicals-has finally returned to the subject that started it all. Santella profiles 50 more first-class fly-fishing destinations around the world,...

A look at the development of the sport over the past six centuries. Once limited to trout and salmon, today fly-fishing techniques are used to catch every fish species from minnows to marlin in rivers, lakes and oceans from the Amazon to the Arctic. From the many thousands of fly patterns developed over the centuries, The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies focuses on fifty iconic flies chosen to represent the evolution not only of fishing flies...

Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited...

Everything the saltwater angler needs to know, from a long-time authority. Covers tackle and how to use it, baits and lures, the fifty most sought-after saltwater gamefish, recipes, introducing kids to saltwater fishing, and conservation issues. This edition revised and updated from the original 2001 publication with current trends in tackle, technique, and conservation.

Precise illustrations demonstrate each step. DVD features Lefty Kreh tying 30 of his favorite knots and reinforcing techniques in the text.

Making a usable fishing lure from a scrap of wood and some paint is a fun and easy project for anyone who enjoys fishing, carving or collecting. Award-winning carver and fishing enthusiast Rich Rousseau shares his fish-tested designs for creating a variety of fresh and saltwater lures. Divided into three main chapters this covers everything from what to know about choosing the right wood, types of lures, extra options to add to a lure, how to dress...

In The Fish's Eye: Essays about Angling and the Outdoors, Ian Frazier explores his lifelong passion for fishing, fish, and the aquatic world. He sees the angler's environment all around him-in New York's Grand Central Station, in the cement-lined pond of a city park, in a shimmering bonefish flat in the Florida keys, in the trout streams of the Rocky Mountains. He marvels at the fishing in the turbid Ohio River by downtown Cincinnati, where a good...

"Illuminated by Water is a book about the author's own decades-long passion for fly fishing and how it has shaped the way he sees and thinks about the natural world. That passion is shared and made legible here, not just for other anglers, but for those who have never yet cast a line in the water. Why is it that catching fish--or even thinking about catching fish--can be so thrilling, so captivating? Why is it that time spent beside water can be imprinted...