This section describes books on the subject of fly fishing for striped bass. You can use the links to Amazon.com to see reviews of the books, and if you want, purchase them.
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Casting with Lefty Kreh
by Lefty Kreh - 2008
With this book you get private lessons from Lefty Kreh, the best teacher in the business.
Lefty shows you how to cast for both accuracy and distance. He also shows how to roll cast, cast in tight quarters and how to handle the wind and many other situations that develop when you are on the water.
Lefty says when you cast his way, casting is nearly effortless.
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Fly Fishing For Striped Bass
by Ed Rich Murphy - 2007
The author of this book is obsessed with catching striped bass on flies. Rich has made it his business to greet the early migrant bass as they arrive in the warming springtime shallows of Plum Island and follow them all summer until they as they depart as the storms of autumn lash the Cape Cod National Seashore. In this book he explains his successful techniques for catching striped bass with flies.
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Fly Fishing The Striper Surf
by Frank Daignault - 2004
The author offers over 200 pages and 50 photos about fly fishing the surf. He provides guidance on the issues with which fly fishermen will be confronted while in pursuit of striped bass from the shore.
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Fly Fishing The Saltwater Shoreline
by Ed Mitchell - 2001
This book is about fly fishing for striped bass. It is also about fly fishing for bluefish, bonito, false albacore, weakfish and hickory shad. It has nice sections on fishing the edges and on fishing the migrations.
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Striper Moon - Fly fishing Techniques For striped Bass in Estuary,
River, Bay and Surf
by J. Kenney Abrames - 1994
This is a nice book about fly fishing for striped bass. It contains a lot of great information and some nifty colored pictures. Its section on reading the surf is especially good.
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Saltwater Fly Fishing - Seven Strategies For Success - 2002
by Capt. Mike Starke
This book covers saltwater fly fishing techniques for fly fishing from both the shore and a boat. It is not specifically about striped bass, but many of the techniques covered are applicable to striped bass fishing. In the book, the Capt. discusses strategies that he states are the basis of effectively "fly fishing the salt."
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Fly Rodding The Coast
by Ed Mitchell - 2002
This book covers saltwater fly fishing for striped bass, bluefish, bonito, and little tunny. It explains how to read beaches, rips, points of land, estuaries, man-made structure, and weather. It also shows you how to match your lures to the baitfish.
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Stripers and Streamers - Successful Flies, Techniques and Other Insights
by Ray Bondorew - 1996
The author offers his knowledge gained in over 40 years of saltwater fly fishing. Some of the flies he shows for imitating baitfish are his own design, including "Ray's Fly." He also shows flies designed by his buddy, Ken Abrams.
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Fly Rodding Estuaries: How to Fish Salt Ponds, Coastal Creeks, and Backwaters.
by Ed Mitchell - 2003
In this book Ed outlines the many backwaters that provide excellent fishing for saltwater fish, including striped bass, and explains how to catch them in such waters using a fly rod.
