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By Harold F. Blaisdell,Jerry Gibbs

ISBN-10: 1632202794

ISBN-13: 9781632202796

“My favourite publication on fishing—a vintage from considered one of my favourite writers.”
—John Randolph, former editor, Fly Fisherman


Earthy and philosophical, useful but speculative—this booklet is a superb and enduring portrait of a fisherman’s temperament. packed with the past due Harold F. Blaisdell’s infectious humanity and knowledge, The Philosophical Fisherman, lengthy out of print, is a classic.

Blaisdell is often self sustaining and unique in his pondering. He refutes the generally held concept that video game fish assault synthetic lures simply because they suspect them to be baitfish. He argues that fish don't worry leaders in keeping with se, yet develop into alarmed provided that the chief leads to the unnatural circulation of the bait or entice. He debunks the vaunted effectiveness of the bogus nymph, explores the simplest equipment of rainy and dry-fly fishing, and checks his theories opposed to such gamefish as trout, smallmouth bass, landlocked salmon, walleyes, and northerly pike. there's something the following for everybody who fishes—including a persuasive argument that the common angler anyplace within the kingdom can perpetually locate really good fishing with in hour’s force of his home.

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