First Cast

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Stackpole Books, 1998 - Počet stran: 336
Phil Genova, nationally known for his work as founder and director of the Fly Fisher Apprentice Program, shares proven techniques to motivate and teach kids to fly-fish. His approach is that kids should have fun as they learn. His program likewise instills the concepts of environmental awareness and stewardship of the land that are integral to the sport. Skills and techniques are generously illustrated with 25 drawings and 165 photos throughout the book.
 

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The Mentor and the Apprentice
3
Fly Tying Tools and Materials
22
Fly Tying Flies and Instruction
52
Tackle and Equipment
81
Fly Casting
117
Skills Rules and Techniques
150
The Saltwater FlyRodding Experience
173
Field Trips
210
Exploring the Aquatic Environment
243
Community Programs
261
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Strana 10 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.
Strana 13 - If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Strana 9 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Strana 3 - Come on, then; bend your line onto mine. Quick as lightning." Under his critical eye, I joined the two lines with a blood knot. "I guessed you were a fisherman," he said, nodded approvingly and clipped off the ends. "And now to know the best or the worst." I shall never forget the music of that check reel or the suspense with which I watched as, with the butt of the rod bearing against the hollow of his thigh, he steadily wound up the wet slack line. Every instant I expected it to come drifting downstream,...
Strana 21 - ... willows. What should prevent a man in such a place having a word and speech with another who is not there? So much of fishing lies in imagination, and mine needs little stretching to give my river god a living form. 'With this ripple,' says he, 'you should do well.

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