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Dick
gives slide shows and presentations for fly fishing shows, fishing
clubs, angling groups, and fly fishing retailer events. Contact him
at dick@dickbrownbonefishing.com or
978 463 3073 for your next event.
Fish Better on Your Next Bonefish Trip
Whether you’re an experienced flats angler or a first time flats
stalker, you’ll find dozens of useful tips in Dick’s presentation
that will improve your skills for seeking, finding, stalking, hooking
and landing more bonefish. Here are only a few of the many questions
Dick will answer in this fact-packed show:
• What’s the one best way
to improve your hook-up rate?
• How do you know when to strike a fish?
• What is the single-best determinant of the optimum stripping cadence?
• How well do you need to see fish?
• Is there anything you can do to see fish better?
• Where should you put your fly to get fish to eat it?
• What’s the most common mistake newcomers and veterans alike make
in aiming at fish?
• Which flies should you take to Destination X? What sizes? How many?
• What’s the best knot for tying your tippet to your fly?
• Do hooks matter?
• Which rod should you bring? Do you need more than one?
• Which reel protects you best against break offs?
• What type of reel drag is best? And how should you set it—light
or heavy?
• How do you cast in stiff winds—with accuracy?
• Should you overline?
• Custom leaders or off-the-shelf leaders?
• Tippet size—how do you dial into the optimum choice?
• Fluorocarbon or Nylon? Tinted or clear?
• Do you need a stripping basket?
• How can you be sure you gear gets there with you?
Today’s Deadliest Bonefish Flies
Dick highlights today’s most effective flats flies—including
many of the newest patterns he has researched for an updated edition of Bonefish
Fly Patterns. He covers:
• Major bonefish prey-forms favored by bones and the best patterns to
suggest them.
• The critical functional requirements flies must meet to get in front
of fish, avoid spooking
them, and make them strike.
• Strategies for better snag proofing, improved casting aerodynamics,
and more seductive
self-animation to entice fish.
• Destination differences and how
they affect fly choice, giving examples of how to stock your
fly box for different parts of the world.
• Today’s best flats flies.
The flies that illustrate this presentation
come from a virtual Who’s
Who of flats fishing pros and enthusiasts including: Tim Borski, Patrick
Dorsy, Vic Gaspeny, Rick Ruoff, Steve Huff, Harry Spear, Juan Valadez,
Del Brown, Lefty Kreh, Bob Clouser, jack Gartside, Dave Skok, Craig
Mathews, Ben Estes, Chuck Furimsky, Tim Merrihew, Winston Moore, Bob
Popovics, Jim Orthwein, Jeffrey Cardenas, Wayne Haselau, Rodney Baine,
Barry and Cathy Beck, Tom McGuane, Blane Chocklett, Doc Hall, Mark
Tomchin, Jim Orthwein, Yves Chouinard, Brian O’Keefe, Rick Simonsen,
Eric Peterson, and many others.
On Your Knees In Venezuela—Stalking
Bones, Baby Tarpon, and Peacock Bass on the Equator
Dick explores the challenging thin-water flats of Los Roques, the sprawling
atoll fishery on the northern coast of South America—an area
that may just hold the best spring and summer bonefishing in the Atlantic
and some of the best wading anywhere in the world. The author also
shows techniques for local baby tarpon in the Rio Chico outflow of
the Amazon Basin and peacock bass in the high mountain lakes of northern
Venezuela. Specific strategies, fly patterns, tackle, and fishing techniques
for the area are discussed.
The Los Roques segment also covers:
• Local prey
• Fly patterns
• Gear and rigging
• Wading strategy
It's Better
in the Bahamas—My Favorite Bonefishing
Haunts
The author examines bonefishing in the central and northern Bahamas—including
some of his own personal favorite areas. He describes such important
fisheries as Abaco's Sandy Point, Mores Island, the Marls, Cherokee
Sound, and Cooperstown as well as Eleuthera, Grand Bahama, Andros,
and the mythical Berry Islands. The author desribes these outstanding
fisheries, giving specific strategies, fly patterns, tackle, and fishing
techniques for the areas are discussed.
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