Pheasant Hunting Video, Books Bring Outdoors Activities Indoors
You can learn more about hunting pheasants in 45 minutes by viewing “Pheasant Hunting With Tom Huggler” than you can by hunting the gaudy, raucous birds during many seasons.
The outstanding video comes on the market at a time when Inland Northwest hunters are wondering whether hunting will be good this fall. Early June rains probably killed thousands of newly hatched chicks, but hunters won’t know what the pheasant population will be like until the hunting season.
Huggler’s video, packed with useful information on pheasants, pheasant hunting, dogs and equipment, should be must-viewing for young hunters. But everyone can learn a lot about the wary upland bird.
The video is available for $24.95, plus $3 for shipping, from Outdoor Images, P.O. Box 250, Sunfield, MI, 48890.
Several new books, many of them about fly tying and fly fishing, are in book stores. Some of the most interesting and informative are:
“Modern Fly-Tying Materials,” by Dick Talleur, published by Lyons & Burford, $35. With the proliferation of new and exotic fly tying materials, vices, hooks and dubbing, the nation’s amateur fly tiers have been faced with bewildering choices of what’s best. Talleur evaluates many of the new gadgets and materials and tells how to use the new foams, chenilles, adhesives, synthetic and natural dubbing material, clay, epoxy, Cul de Canard feathers, Chickabou and other materials.
“Mastering the Spring Creeks,” by John Shewey, published by Frank Amato Publications, paperback $24.95. Although relatively few of the nation’s fly fishers fish spring creeks, this beautifully illustrated 144-page guide by a talented Northwest fly fisher and author provides useful information for all fly fishermen. Shewey includes Rocky Ford Creek among the spring creeks he writes about. Other Northwest spring creeks he features include the Williamson and Metolius rivers in Oregon and Armstrong’s, Nelson’s and Depuy’s spring creeks in Montana.
“River Journal: Henry’s Fork,” by Larry Tullis, published by Frank Amato Publications, $15.95. This is one of Amato’s lengthening list of guides of famous trout streams. The guides, each illustrated with outstanding color pictures, have become “must” books for thousands of fly fishers. Tullis, who has fished and guided on Idaho’s legendary Henry’s Fork, has included all the information a fly fisher needs to fish the stream, including fly patterns, bug hatches, where and when to fish the stream.
“Glacier National Park,” by David Rockwell, published by Houghton Mifflin, paperback, $16.95. If you plan to visit the million-acre national park in northwest Montana, invest in this outstanding natural history guide of the nation’s third largest park. The 278-page guide contains detailed information about plants, wildlife, glaciers, geology, recreational opportunities and anything else you might want to know. Numerous maps, black and white and color pictures are in the guide.
Saltwater flies and saltwater fly patterns. “Saltwater Flies, Over 700 of the Best,” by Deke Meyer, published by Frank Amato Publications, paperback, $34.95, is a new book that contains pictures and tying specifications for more than 700 patterns used by fly fishers. The excellent pictures are by Jim Schollmeyer, photographer for many Amato books. The 120-page book is a good reference guide for most of the productive patterns devised the last several years. “Saltwater Fly Patterns,” by Lefty Kreh, published by Lyons & Burford, $19.95, softcover, is a revised and enlarged edition of Kreh’s popular fly pattern book. The latest edition contains numerous patterns not in the original book and includes new patterns from South Africa, France, England and Australia.
“Galen Rowell’s Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography,” by Galen Rowell, published by Sierra Club Books, paperback, $18. If you’ve ever wondered how world-famous photographer Rowell got some of those photos you’ve admired in various magazines, buy this readable and informative book. Originally published in hard cover two years ago, the book in paperback form is affordable to anyone interested in outdoor photography.
“Alpine Angler, a Fly Fisher’s Guide to the Western Wilderness,” by John Shewey, published by Frank Amato Publications, $24.95. This book, illustrated with beautiful photos of mountain lakes and streams, is for the fly fisher who has the energy to hike miles and miles up steep country to fish for often-finicky trout. Shewey tells what to pack, flies and equipment to use and where to find information on alpine lake fishing.
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