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Nymphing Strategies
by Larry Tullis

Practical advice from a guide with 30 years experience. Trout eat 90% of their food below the surface, & to catch them consistently - whether or not they are on the the rise - you must learn how to fly fish with nymphs. Every aspect of nymph fishing, including: nymph naturals such as mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, midges, craneflies, damselflies, & dragonflies; trout behavior, selectivity, & structure; strike indicators, presentation levels, strike zones, weights, & mending; rigs & techniques for dry-fly, bounce, right-angle, & high stick nymphing; other productive flies such as scuds, sow bugs, crayfish, aquatic worms, snails, minnow, & leeches. Full color; 5x7 inches, 152 pgs.

Trout eat 90 percent of their food below the surface, and to catch them consistently-whether or not they are on the rise-you must learn how to fly fish with nymphs. In Nymphing Strategies, Larry Tullis shares his years of experience in this practical guide on every aspect of nymph fishing, including:

• Nymph naturals such as mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, midges, craneflies, damselflies, and dragonflies
• Trout behavior, selectivity, and structure
• Strike indicators, presentation levels, strike zones, weights, and mending
• The rigs and techniques for dry-fly, bounce, right-angle, and high-stick nymphing
• Other productive flies such as scuds, sow bugs, crayfish, aquatic worms, snails, minnows, and leeches

Nymphing Strategies has everything a beginning fly fisher needs to start using this technique to catch fish more consistently, and there is a great deal of information for advanced anglers, too. As he writes in the preface, John Randolph "learned a great deal that is new from these pages, despite my fifty years of fishing, both as an amateur and a professional." Nymphing Strategies belongs on the shelves of every serious trout angler. Preface by John Randolph.

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