RESERVOIR FLY FISHING BOOKS

THE FLY FISHING LEGACY OF T C IVENS

Reservoir Nymph Patterns, Techniques and Tackle Innovations by Tom Ivens

Adrian V W Freer

The development of reservoir fly fishing in England has provided a small number of notable innovators who have changed the way that stillwater anglers fish forever, and within that select company must surely be included the name of Tom Ivens.

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It is impossible to over-emphasize the influence that he had on the development of reservoir fly angling which came as a result of the publication of his classic book, Stillwater Fly-Fishing. The ideas he proposed at that time quickly became the benchmark for tackling reservoirs.

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He invented many new fly patterns, popularized double-haul casting, designed a range of fishing rods, introduced a range of shooting heads, perfected tapered nylon leaders and devised alternative methods of recovering his flies.

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This present volume is intended to provide an insight into this influential angler and his considerable achievements.

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Chapters include:

Preface

•   1  Biography of T C Ivens

•   2  Impact of the publication of Stillwater Fly-Fishing

•   3  Traditional flies, deceivers and flashers

•   4  Distance casting and retrieve methods

•   5  Fly dressing

•   6  T C Ivens’ original (1952) series of fly patterns

•   7  Ravensthorpe and Hollowell Reservoirs

•   8  T C Ivens’ second (1970) series of fly patterns

•   9  Grafham Water

• 10  T C Ivens’ river patterns

• 11  References to T C Ivens

• 12  Changes in reservoir fly fishing

• 13  Fishing tackle innovations by T C Ivens

• 14  Books and articles written by T C Ivens

• 15  Postscript

Notes

The Author

Bibliography

Index

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Format: 9" x 6" Full Colour Paperback 102 pages

Includes 67 photographs, 2 diagrams, 4 maps and 2 tables

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Published by Welford Court Press ISBN: 978-0-9520304-3-0

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