"Thou shalt love the waters and all things that nourish therefrom; and thou shalt cherish and protect them as thine own~ For all nature is thy home and all living things are thy kin."
What I'm talking about is a book that I just rediscovered last night as I was looking through my book shelf. I was given this book by the person who taught me to fish and I would highly recommend this book to any seasoned or beginning angler (I'm sure you'll learn something). I'll let you read the reviews (or better yet, go out and buy it, $10 from Amazon) to make the decision for yourself, but I promise this book will help you catch more fish more often.
The book I'm referring to is "The Curtis Creek Manifesto." For those of you that know it and own it, re read it. For those of you that don't, buy it.
-Jon
P.S. Any other personal experiences with this book?
Dito I just got it well . my wifie just bought it . they can be had at leelands ranch . anyways I pulled it out of the car at the russian river when we stoped for lunch and it realy drove home the point about stealth I don't know does any one realy crawl around to sneek up on a spot they think might be holding or do they just be discreet when they approche I see a lot of pics on this site. of fish some of you guys catch . like on the little truckie . Im beginning to think that rivers like the lt and the lower yuba are a lot easer to spook than I thought. any comments ? Ive caught a few fish but not nearly the size or numbers Ive seen the other guys on this site do
Richard and sarah
PS. the fish im holding on my avatar I caught on the lower yuba outside of marysville above the hwy 20 bridge about a half mile hike
-- Edited by rgloft on Monday 24th of August 2009 06:09:41 PM
I've read a few books and they all had pics in them of the guys crouching behind boulders and stuff, which I do when I think it is necessary. I've spooked plenty of fish, I'm sure we all have. I've heard that it's likely that we spook fish and they take off without us even knowing they were there in the first place. I still consider myself a beginner (fly fishing less than 1 yr.) so I'll use any tactic to help catch more fish. I recently spooked some major lunkers up on the Truckee. The fish were hanging out in the shallows right by the bank, and they were HUGE.
Last week I saw some fish rising in a pool. When I would walk up to the pool and cast they would all stop rising and not eat my fly. I sat down for a bit and they started rising again. My first cast they took my fly while I was still sitting.
When (been a long time) I hike to a lake and immediately want to run down to the edge to check things out, I try to calm myself down, find high covered ground to scan the lake, rig up a ways away from the bank, and then begin casting a good twenty feet back from the edge while crouching. I attempt to let only the leader hit the water.
The Curtis Creek Sneak or whatever you want to call it works!
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