Offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport-one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing. 5x7 inches, 224 pgs. Two highly respected outdoor journalists, Charlie Meyers of the Denver Post & Kirk Deeter of Field & Stream, have cracked open their notebooks & shared straight-shot advice on the sport of fly fishing, based on a range of new & old experiences-from interviews with the late Lee Wulff to travels with maverick guides in Tierra del Fuego.The mission of The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing is to demystify & un-complicate the tricks & tips that make a great trout fisher. There are no complicated physics lessons here. Rather, conceived in the "Take dead aim" spirit of Harvey Penick&';s classic instructional on golf, The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing offers a simple, digestible primer on the basic elements of fly fishing: the cast, presentation, reading water, & selecting flies. In the end, this collection of 240 tips is one of the most insightful, plainly spoken, & entertaining works on this sport-one that will serve both novices & experts alike in helping them reflect & hone in their approaches to fly fishing.ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Charlie Meyers is the outdoors editor for the Denver Post & has been covering various fishing & hunting angles for that newspaper since 1966. He is editor-at-large for Angling Trade. He has also contributed a great many fishing-related stories to magazines including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Fly Fisherman, Flyfishing in Salt Waters, Southwest Fly Fishing, The Drake, & many others. He lives in Golden, Colorado.Kirk Deeter is an editor-at-large for Field & Stream magazine & co-editor of its Fly Talk weblog. He is also the editor-in-chief of Angling Trade & senior editor of the Flyfish Journal. His stories have appeared in Garden & Gun, The Drake, 5280, Fly Rod & Reel, Fly Fisherman, Big Sky Journal, SaltWater Sportsman, & Trout, among other places. He lives in Pin, Colorado.