Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Silver Medal Award for best recreational sports book of the year
New Englander Rich Murphy began fly fishing for striped bass in the 1970s, when the entire Atlantic population had plummeted to around 5 million fish. Now there are an estimated 40 million stripers roaming inshore beaches, bays and estuaries from the Carolinas to Maine. Murphy is obsessed with catching striped bass on flies. He's made an art of it, creating an imaginative series of herring—and crustacean-imitating fly patterns that look good enough to eat. Season after season, with the runs rebounding, Rich has made it his business to greet the early-migrant bass as they arrived in the warming springtime shallows of Plum Island and follow them all summer until they depart as the storms of autumn lash the Cape Cod National Seashore. Murphy is Everyman: He doesn't use a boat yet routinely catches huge stripers from banks, flats, open beaches and rocks. His book offers a fresh, practical look at how the average angler can enjoy this wonderful sport with a minimum of expense. Rich Murphy is a completely self-taught saltwater fly fisher. He'll talk about gear, casting and retrieving techniques, striper behavior and physiology, structure-specific fishing tactics and, of course, his specially designed fly patterns. Fly Fishing for Striped Bass promises little re-circulated, old information; it is an energetic exploration of new ideas and techniques. "Rich has written the King James version on our favorite fish." —Paul Dixon, Dean of Montauk striper guides
Hardbound, 457 pages
ISBN 9780974642727
Trade Edition $59.95
Limited Edition of 250 signed and numbered $250
Listen live to Rich answer your questions about striper fishing on May 5, 2010 on the Internet radio program, askaboutflyfishing.com It's free! Go to their Web for easy directions to sign up for the show.
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