Flyfishers Guide To Connecticut

Over 350 rivers, brooks, lakes and ponds are covered in this guide. Detailed maps show every oxbow, cove, campground, boat launch, and access point. Also included is hub city information, including accommodations, restaurants, fly shops and everything else needed to plan a trip. Also covers covers the pressing issues facing Connecticut's fisheries, including invasive species and funding issues facing Connecticut trout stocking.

Provides the essentials to launch a personal journey into the world of fly fishing In this book, a long-time resident and devoted fly fisherman imparts a wealth of knowledge about fly fishing in Connecticut. Kevin Murphy teaches novice anglers about the state's trout hatcheries and stocking programs, the differences between brook, brown, and rainbow trout, and offers easy-to-follow instructions on the basics of fly fishing. In this concise text, the reader finds the essentials in fly fishing gear, stream tactics, casting, and a host of related topics. In addition, would-be anglers gain a useful glimpse into the history of fishing in the state, plus important tips on stream conservation, fly fishing etiquette, regulations, and safety. Most importantly, anglers will find a veritable road map to Connecticut's best trout streams and rivers. The book even offers excellent suggestions for comfortable lodging in prime fly fishing locations and—once the day's fishing is done—a few mouth-watering recipes for cooking one's catch. Whether you're in the market for that first pair of waders, thinking of tuning up your casting technique, or just want to know where the fish are biting, this is the book to read.

Comprehensive coverage of the best fishing waters along the northeast coast.

Now for the first time in full color, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide appears in a revised edition that solidifies its place as the flagship title of the Orvis brand. A best-selling, fully illustrated, and comprehensive book, this large-format volume has been required reading for every angler for the past two decades. Included here are instructions for tackle selection; casting and presentation; flies and their specific uses; successful techniques on stream, pond, or ocean; and the select tackle, flies, and methods for pursuing every major gamefish in fresh and salt water, from bass to bonefish, tarpon to trout.

This completely new flyfishing guide to New England is the best flyfishing guide ever on this fishery-rich and historic area. Author and flyfishing guide Lou Zambello provides all the information to improve your catch rate in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Masschusetts. Full-color maps accompany the fisheries, complete with GPS coordinates, access points, public land, access roads, boat ramps (including small hand launches), parking areas, named holes and pools and more. Many flyfishers flock to the same well-known waters that are written about again and again and face crowded conditions. Yet there are hundreds of productive waters that are ignored. Zambello, who has spent over 30 years fishing in New England, teamed with former Maine State Fisheries Director John Boland and other experts to cover many of these great uncrowded waters in the Flyfisher's Guide to New England. Lou spent the last several years criss-crossing New England researching this book, a review of many hundreds of both popular and unknown, moving and stillwaters in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Following Wilderness Adventures Press' tradition of creating the best flyfishing guide books, the new full-color Flyfisher's Guide to New England will help you get your own piece of fishing heaven. Also check out Zambello's first book, Flyfishing Northern New England's Seasons.

Fairfield County Connecticut Fishing & Floating Guide Book Over 1070 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of 17 full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Aspetuck River Ball Pond Ball Pond Brook Bennett Pond State Park Pond Bethel Park Ponds Binney Park Pond Boehm Pond Bruce Park Pond Bunnells Pond Byram River Caldelwood Lake Cherry Lane Park Pond Cherry Lawn Park Pond Clatter Valley Park pond Cos Cob Millpond Deep Brook Domain Pond East Swamp Brook East Twin Lake Factory Pond Fancy Pond Farmill Reservoir Farmill River Five Mile River Godfrey Pond Gorhams Pond Gould Manor Pond Great Hollow Pond Gunther Park Pond Halfway River Hatters Park Pond Hawleys Brook Helen Keller School Pond Hidden Valley Nature Center Pond Horseneck Brook Horseshoe Park Pond Housatonic River Huntington State Park Ponds Indian Hole Brook Island Brook Park Pond Janosko Park Pond John Chanda Park Pond Kaatz Pond Lake Housatonic Lake Kenosia Lake Lillinonah Lake Windring Lake Zoor Little River Longbrook Park Ponds Mamanasco Lake Mead Memorial Park Pond Means Brook Mianus Pond Mianus River Mianus River East Branch Mill Plain Park Pond Mill Pond Mill River Mohegan Lake Morrissey Brook Motil Pond Park Pond Nells Rock Reservoir New Fairfield Community Park Pond Norwalk River Old Mill Pond Orchard Hills Nature Center Ponds Osbornedale State Park Ponds Pecks Mill Pond Park Pond Peqounnock River Pequonnock River West Branch Pierrepont Pond Pine Lake Pond Brook Pootatuck River Pootatuck River North Branch Putnam State Park Ponds Quiet Waters Raven Park Pond Rippowan River Rogers Park Pond Roosevelt Forest Pond Sasco Brook Saugatuck Reservoir Saugatuck River Saugatuck River Wesr Branch Sawmill Brook Scofield Park Pond Sellecks Woods Park Pond Silvermine River Silvermine River East Branch Squantz Pond Still River Stony Brook Tenmile River Titicus River Tollgate Pond Topstone Park Pond Toth Park Pond Twin Brooks Park Pond Unity Park Ponds Warner Pond West Peqonnock Reservoir Wooster Park Pond Saltwater Access Sites listed west to east Byram Point Byram Park Grass Island Park Roger Sherman Baldwin Park Island Beach Great Captain Island Park Steamboat Road Pier Bruce Park Elias Point Access Greenwich Point Park Southfield Park Dyke Park Czick Marina Park West Beach Park Cummings Park Cove Island Park Gus Edson Park Gerli Park Weed Island Park Pear Tree Point Park Constitution Park Meritime Aquarium Access Veterans Park Oyster Shell Park Bayley Beach Sheffield Island and Sheffield Lighthouse Access Shea & Little Ram Island Access Mill Pond Park Calf Pasture Beach Shady Beach Canal Beach Cockenoe Island Access Eloise Ray Park Geace Salmon Parks Library Riverwalk Pasacreta Park Westport Longshore Park Campo Beach Sherwood State Park Beach and Estuary Burying Hill Beach Southport Beach Ye Old Yacht Yard Perrys Green Sasco Beach Fairfield Public Beach South Pine Creek Beach Penfield Beach Rickards Beach Jennings Beach Ash Creek Open Space Schoonhoven Park Seaside Park Beach Ellsworth Park Riverfront Park Waterview Park Pleasure Beach Long Beach Park Point No Point Short Beach Park Birdseye Street Boat Ramp Bonds Dock Dock Shopping Center (*) are floatable or canoeable rivers)