Title: Nymphing - A Basic Book
Author: Gary A. Borger
Format: Hardcover w/dustjacket, 192 pages
Illustrations: Black and white drawings
Size: 9 1/2" x 6 1/2"
Publisher: Stackpole Books, 1979
ISBN: 0811710106
In Good used condition. Dustjacket has a few scuffs, spine faded, edges rubbed and creased, small chip at spine bottom. Gilt titles on brown boards crisp and bright. Old, light dampstain on fore edge of first two pages, otherwise pages clean and unmarked.
From the dustjacket:
An easy-to-use guide to identifying, tying, and fishing artificial nymphs.
Nymphs - the underwater stages of the aquatic insects - comprise ninety percent of the trout's diet. Knowing how to identify nymphs, tie successful imitations, and fish them correctly are essential flyfishing skills. NYMPHING presents a basic approach to all these techniques in one comprehensive lesson, covering both the traditional and new theories about fishing the underwater fly - new casts, finding lies, detecting the strike, fishing depth, tackle, proper presentation and much more valuable information, fully illustrated in Robert H. Pils' line drawings.
Drawing on his training as a biologist, author Gary Borger discusses basic nymph fishing approach and presentation against a background of trout physiology - what the fish sees and hears. He includes a particularly valuable pictorial key to identifying nymphs based on reliable, nonscientific characteristics that the beginner can use astream. From there, the angler can follow Borger's clear, illustrated lessons on "The Jumping Nymph," "The Secret of the Wooly Worm," "The Deadly Dozen" patterns - and be prepared for some interesting responses from the trout.
Presenting the fly correctly and detecting the strike are particularly elusive skills and even the veteran flyfisher will find something new in Gary Borger's bag of tricks, such as the "Strip/Tease" retrieve. And for the really dedicated nymph fisherman, Gary has included a special section on making custom nymphing lines. New insights into the retrieve, nymphing the film, and finding fish in still water round out this single-volume approach to using the underwater fly.
Many of the recent books on flyfishing have touched on basic nymphing techniques, but none of them has put all the essential fishing skills into perspective the way Gary Borger has. For the thousands of flyfishers who are eager to match wits with the trout on their own streams, NYMPHING is the place to start for increased angling success.
