"The Nature of Fly Fishing" Owners' Bonus Media

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Hallowed Artifacts

Photographs relating to significant early fishing memories mentioned in Chapter 2 "Beginnings"

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Outsized European Grayling from Izaak Walton’s River

Photos, as promised in the book, of the big grayling which showed how important the calories in vs calories out are to where you place your fly.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Fooled by Fake Selectivity?

When you are down at river level, sometimes a "refusal" of your fly can be completely imaginary. A fish needs to first see your fly before it can refuse it...

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Recreating Tinbergen’s Classic “Stickleback Attack” Experiement on Video

Introducing the idea of simple visual clues being capable of releasing powerful innate responses in predators. This sets the scene for the more detailed "deep dive" investigation of prey image in the following chapter.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Getting to Grips with Supernormal Stimuli

After a quick recap of sticklebacks (to introduce "Fixed Action Patterns"), this lesson shows how powerful "Supernormal Stimuli" can be. Getting a good feel for this phenomenon can be a game changer in your fly fishing.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Core Concept: Natural Selection

A really clear walkthrough video which supports a strong understanding of natural selection. Having that instinctive understanding is a seriously useful concept for fly fishers.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Adaptation & The Roles of Different Forms of Selection

Unpacking the important ways adaptation takes place

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Core Concept: The Difference Between Niche & Habitat

Clearly setting out how the idea of a niche relates to physical habitat

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Dr Hisao Ishigaki on “Scruffy” Fly Design

Professor of visual science at Aichi Institute of Technology, Dr Hisao Ishigaki is also an ambassador for Japan's traditional fly fishing. Here he explains why an artificial fly needs so little to be a very effective pattern. His experiences give just some of the fishing-relevance to the ideas of prey (search) image found in behavioural ecology.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Toads Innate “Prey” vs “Predator” Recognition & Response

See the classic demonstration of responses to the most simple "worm-like" and "anti-worm" prey images possible.

Nature of Fly FIshing Book Buyers Only Nymph Macro Photos & Guilds