The Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing: Complete Playbook of Euro Nymphing

What is The Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing? TL;DR Rundown

The Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing is a 172-page full-color paperback print book with large 8” x 10” pages (and comes with over 2 hours of supporting, on-line HD video content). The aim of the book and video combo is to help you achieve your highest possible confidence and ability when fly fishing with nymphs for trout, char and grayling in rivers and streams.

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Who Wrote it and What Else is Included?

PLUS there’s an insanely detailed guide to creating and chemically-treating your own custom-made French leaders (with multiple taper recipes to get you started). There are recipes for leaders across all featured styles of nymphing. However, John Pearson goes to unbelievable lengths to reveal the real trade secrets of perfect knot and taper creation – as well as applying the chemical treatment perfectly.

The full supporting video collection covers: 

Illustrated throughout by the author with clear diagrams – the book is also filled with high quality photographs; including privileged access to the fly boxes of some of the world’s best nymph anglers.

There’s even some scans of original notes taken during masterclasses by Czech World-team coach Jiří Klíma – plus insights from the fishing of Stuart Crofts, World Champions Howard Croston, Pascal Cognard, Tomas Starychfojtu, Vladi Trzebunia and Grégoire Juglaret PLUS Pêche à la Sempé ambassador Charles-Henry Kurzen and genius anglers like Jurek Kowalski and Stanisław Cios.

There’s a short explainer video on the book’s product page on the link below:

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Why was the Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing Written?

The popularity of our free nymphing email tutorials (and the format with clear diagrams and detailed technique explanation) showed that there was a big appetite for clear explanations of the insider tactics of modern nymphing. At the same time, seeing the amount of confusion (and straight up wrong info) in many of the online discussions of Euro nymphing, Tight line nymphing, tactical nymphing, Czech nymphing and more – it was clear that what I knew in my own fishing could help a lot of people.

Gathering my notepads from multiple trips to Europe to study these methods – plus articles I’d written for myself and others over the years; I sketched out the bare bones of a possible book. Then, as the most important step, I asked our email subscribers whether I should push that project on to completion…and the response was an overwhelming “YES”.

As well as the multiple years of notes, photos and diagram gathering (dating back to 2006), the verdict of our subscribers saw me work on the book every day for seven months. In that time, I restructured it several times and also completed a huge amount of diagrams to explain all the ideas properly. 

Some of the Tactics Covered in the Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing

Here’s a simple list to give you an idea of the range of tactics covered in the Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing:

…and then it explains how to cherry-pick/combine and apply any and all the most suitable parts of those tactics in a clear SYSTEM of fly fishing.

That is where the real power is. The key is understanding the mechanics of each method and then combining that with enough understanding of fish and bugs to guide your choices. That combined system is, for me, what should be described as “Euro nymphing”.

The amazing Stuart Crofts

One of the unique aspects of the book is having access to Stuart Crofts (15 international caps for the England team) as one of my near neighbours and fishing club members. 

He has been incredibly generous in opening up his own diaries from events around the world, telling fantastic (and often very funny) stories of discovering new methods and flies. Stuart also allowed me full access to his collections of flies gifted to him by many international competitors and other pioneering anglers from Continental Europe over the decades. I got to photograph those flies in full-color, macro detail and include them in the book.

That’s even before we get into his entomology skills (and addiction to the biology of caddis flies in particular). I’m exceptionally lucky to have benefited from Stuart’s wisdom over the years. I hope you can see why I’m so delighted to be able to share with you what I’ve personally found to be his most powerful insights.

All the preparation for that system can be done at home, so you maximise time on the stream. In that respect, the preparation and mounting of “ready to fish” droppers into a carrying system is a bit like fly tying. Neither of those preparation steps are typically done in/on the river (even though they can be if you want).

Is the Video Content Important to the Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing Book?

Our vision for the video “bonuses” was actually that they should justify the book’s price tag alone – even before you dig into the text, diagrams and photos on the pages. We worked really hard to use the strengths of both types of media – in video active steps, timing/rhythm and small details of physical actions are easy to show. 

Things happening in real time are very difficult or impossible to fully show in a book. With that said, books allow you to develop ideas and stories with much more power – make them more memorable and can contain a lot more detail without overwhelming the senses.
Our experience as coaches and teachers really helped to take the high-level skills and break them down to make them simple and learnable. 

As well as the unique tactical insights, it is the combination of coaching breakdowns, biological mechanisms and access to stories and secrets “from the source” that make the Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing different.

Am I Going to be Overloaded with Fly Patterns?

While there are a lot of examples from the boxes of multiple legendary anglers, the actual “suggested” base-set of flies is very short. That short list of essential basic “prototypes” come with recipes and are cross-referenced to appropriate real bugs and grubs (or fish).

We didn’t want “fly pattern overwhelm” (real disease BTW!!) to be a barrier to you getting out on stream and landing fish.

How to Get your Copy of The Fly Fishing Bible of Nymphing

As well as being available on Amazon, you can order signed copies directly from Fishing Discoveries using the link below:

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These are signed, packed and shipped from Derbyshire England - and shipping is automatically calculated (and displayed) based on the address you enter at checkout.

When you buy direct from us, you'll receive a welcome email which includes your access details so that you can start watching the video material while you await delivery of your book. Ordering on Amazon means you have to follow the instructions inside the book to obtain your details (but the delivery should be quite fast).

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Paul