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This ground-breaking work is now available as a high-quality hardbacked book, enhanced with free videos that highlight in-stream evidence, experiments, and innovative fly tying techniques. The authors spent years filming trout interactions with natural and artificial flies, using advanced cameras to capture remarkable behaviours that shape fly design and presentation. They share simple, effective fly patterns that mimic the vulnerable insects that trout prefer. Peter and Don offer expert guidance on locating feeding fish, approaching them, and presenting flies to minimize rejections. With 100 new patterns and fresh insights into trout behaviour, this book is an essential resource for anglers and fly tiers. Colour photos throughout, QR codes for links to videos; 4to (189 x 246mm), 400 pgs.
About the Author
Peter Hayes has spent his life trying to understand, and get closer to, unseen populations. He started early, and caught his first fish at 4, plunging a net under "nervous duckweed". Carried 12' bamboo poles on buses to secret streams and ponds deep in Sussex. Since retiring 27 years ago he has spent most of his time working pro bono for NGOs and charities in the river and trout arena; running the Wilton Fly Fishing Club; and trying to understand trout and flies. The latter brought him into a ten-year close evidence- gathering partnership with Don Stazicker, (resulting in 4,500 video clips and some 50,000 photographs), filming and analysing trout and fly behaviour frame by frame in high definition, and thus back into literature- a perfect storm. He has written four books on fly fishing: "Fly Fishing Outside the Box, Emerging Heresies", Coch-y-Bonddu Books, in 2013; "Imitators of the Fly, a History", Coch-y-Bonddu Books, in 2015; [and] "Trout and Flies, Getting Closer" with Don Stazicker, Amazon Kindle in 2019, and they have now added this one, "The Flies That Trout Prefer".
Don Stazicker grew up surrounded by rivers made famous by Izaak Walton, Alfred Ronalds and Roger Woolley. His enlightened response to this abundance of fabulous limestone fly fishing was to fish with bait for the early part of his angling career. At university, the presence of bait in the communal refrigerator was frowned upon and his bait fishing gear, weighing more than he did, aroused disapproval from the local bus company. He decided there must be a better way. The purchase of a fly-tying kit and beginners outfit ignited a passion for tying and fishing with flies that shows no sign of abating after nearly 45 years. Now retired, Don cares for 11 miles of the Derbyshire Wye, a beautiful limestone stream described as 'the finest insect driven fishery in Britain'. A professional guide, he writes regularly for fly fishing magazines and gives presentations on all aspects of fly fishing for river trout. His lifelong fascination with photography combines synergistically with his fly fishing, he pushes the limits of photographic and video technology to better understand how trout behave, that this helps him to catch more of them is purely co-incidental.
About the Author
Peter Hayes has spent his life trying to understand, and get closer to, unseen populations. He started early, and caught his first fish at 4, plunging a net under "nervous duckweed". Carried 12' bamboo poles on buses to secret streams and ponds deep in Sussex. Since retiring 27 years ago he has spent most of his time working pro bono for NGOs and charities in the river and trout arena; running the Wilton Fly Fishing Club; and trying to understand trout and flies. The latter brought him into a ten-year close evidence- gathering partnership with Don Stazicker, (resulting in 4,500 video clips and some 50,000 photographs), filming and analysing trout and fly behaviour frame by frame in high definition, and thus back into literature- a perfect storm. He has written four books on fly fishing: "Fly Fishing Outside the Box, Emerging Heresies", Coch-y-Bonddu Books, in 2013; "Imitators of the Fly, a History", Coch-y-Bonddu Books, in 2015; [and] "Trout and Flies, Getting Closer" with Don Stazicker, Amazon Kindle in 2019, and they have now added this one, "The Flies That Trout Prefer".
Don Stazicker grew up surrounded by rivers made famous by Izaak Walton, Alfred Ronalds and Roger Woolley. His enlightened response to this abundance of fabulous limestone fly fishing was to fish with bait for the early part of his angling career. At university, the presence of bait in the communal refrigerator was frowned upon and his bait fishing gear, weighing more than he did, aroused disapproval from the local bus company. He decided there must be a better way. The purchase of a fly-tying kit and beginners outfit ignited a passion for tying and fishing with flies that shows no sign of abating after nearly 45 years. Now retired, Don cares for 11 miles of the Derbyshire Wye, a beautiful limestone stream described as 'the finest insect driven fishery in Britain'. A professional guide, he writes regularly for fly fishing magazines and gives presentations on all aspects of fly fishing for river trout. His lifelong fascination with photography combines synergistically with his fly fishing, he pushes the limits of photographic and video technology to better understand how trout behave, that this helps him to catch more of them is purely co-incidental.
