Lure Fishing: Presentation and Strategy

Lure Fishing Presentation & Strategy By Dave Pugh

  [caption id="" align="alignright" width="330"] Lure Fishing by Dave Pugh. First 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. Price just £19.95.[/caption] Standard edition - a high quality hardback with cover illustration by Maurice Pledger. First 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. Price £19.95. Collector's edition - quarter-bound in leather and presented in a slipcase. Limited to only 30 signed and numbered copies. Price £95.00. Launching this Saturday (25th of September) at the PAC Convention, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, is this excellent new book from professional lure fishing guide, Dave Pugh. The first 250 copies will be individually numbered and signed by the author. Pre-orders are coming in fast! For the collectors among us we have also produced just 30 copies quarter-bound in emerald green scale-effect leather and presented in a Royal blue cloth-bound slipcase. Each copy will be signed and numbered by the author. Dave Pugh's success as a fishing guide is totally dependent on his customers catching fish. No fish means no customers. This book is an accumulation of twenty-five years of trial and error, and the defining and honing of a few basic methods on thousands of fish. Reading this book and putting into practice its no-nonsense advice will certainly improve your lure fishing skills and help you catch more fish, more consistently. "Read Dave's book carefully and I’m sure you will increase your effectiveness. The lure will not have changed, but what you do with the lure most certainly will have." (from the foreword by Neville Fickling). Contents include:

Presentation

1 What Really Matters The background information, the real nitty-gritty about the important stuff that helps us to catch fish with our lures. A lure is just a bait that is best suited to a moving presentation. The underwater world. Speed, depth and lure size. 2 Lure Control - Casting Guidance on casting, this sounds very basic, but it is important. 3. Lure Control – Retrieving Depth and speed control. 4. Lure Control – Structure How lures can be chosen and controlled to take account of the shape of the river or lake bed. 5. Basic Tackle Exactly that, some guidance on equipment. The same kit is not right for everyone. 6. Lure Types A simplified description of lure behaviours. In terms of control, there are essentially only 3 types! 7. Lure Colour Why it does, and does not, matter. 8. Good Lures Things to consider about what makes a lure a good choice. Includes qualities like strength, durability, casting range and price.

Strategy

9. Introduction to strategy. Lures or bait? Fish density and behaviour. Mobility and access, a boat, seasonal changes and water conditions. 10. Searching New waters and your regular spots. Finding good places and numbers of fish. 11. Bagging Up Making the most of the opportunity when you have found numbers of fish. Competing fish. Speed and depth. 12. Scratching What to do when you cannot find numbers of fish. Extremes of speed. Concentration, determination and thoroughness. 13. Pike Specifically Technical application: fishing for pike in weir pools, margins and weedbeds. Lures as tools. Precision and control. 14. Time Management Planning, reacting to results, optimising time in best places. 15.Never Stop Learning. Reading critically, choosing your fishing buddies, team ethos, protecting your best fishing, and getting your money's worth from guides.   [caption id="" align="alignright" width="374"] De luxe quarter-leather edition of Lure Fishing by Dave Pugh. Limited to only 30 signed and numbered copies. Price just £95.[/caption] Here's what Dave himself has to say about his book on his Lure Fishing UK website. "Some time ago I decided that I'd like to write a book about lure fishing. I felt I had something to say that was rather different from the usual stuff that gets repeated and recycled endlessly. It comes down to experience, I've been fishing with lures for 25 years now, and during that time I've caught a lot of fish from various water types and in a huge variety of water conditions. Something that is plain to me from all that experience is that the majority of everything I've ever read about lure fishing is either irrelevant or misleading, and worst of all, totally unhelpful to someone who wants to catch a lot of fish with lures. There are two main threads of lure fishing that have to be woven together to create the fabric of success: the first is simply the ability to control lures, which involves not only the cast and the retrieve, but the choice of lure. The second is how you should go about applying that ability on the water to make sure you catch the maximum number of your target species. So the book, entitled: Lure Fishing – Presentation and Strategy, is in 2 sections, the first part covers Presentation, all the technical stuff that enables you to get the right lure in the right place. The second part is about the Strategy, selecting the right places, including searching for fish, catching loads when you've found them, and also getting the best from a hard day. Alongside the main text there are over 100 colour photographs, all with informative captions that describe detailed examples within the general thread. Everything in the book is drawn from experience, I've no daft theories about lures and fish, there is no lazy speculation about irrelevancies, it is just a practical guide to getting the most from your lures. It contains plenty of original information, important things that I've never seen written anywhere but that have made a big contribution to my success, the sort of things that really matter when you're out there on the water: I believe that information will be helpful to any other lure anglers seeking to improve their catches." Lure Fishing Presentation and Strategy by Dave Pugh ISBN 978 1 904784 64 7 Published and distributed by Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, Machynlleth, Powys SY20 8DG 01654 702837 www.anglebooks.com