Book Description
Ted Haggard presents a successful and tested model for a small group ministry here that can be implemented by a church of any size. By enabling members to embrace and capitalize on their own unique abilities, the diverse groups create an environment where people meet mentors that can disciple and guide them. This need-and interest based approach redefines the model for powerful church growth.
Customer Reviews:
The author's caught on to half of it, that's for sure!.......2007-07-09
Haggard actually got half of it right... people enjoy affinity groups, and they're a great place to connect with unchurched people and build relationships.
However, his definition of a "cell group" is weak and he lumps all the various kinds of affinity groups in that definition.
Healthy cell groups are holistic, meaning they contain the lifestyle commanded in both the Great Commandment and Great Commission. They are also Christ-centered, and do not find their purpose in snowboarding or scrapbooking.
However, I firmly believe that what Haggard has written about in this book should be employed by holistic small group-based churches as a relationally evangelistic arm of each group in addition to a true, Christ-in-the-midst gathering of believers.
Man cannot live on interest groups (bread) alone.
Nothing Better.......2007-01-09
I've read many books on small groups and building community within the body of Christ. This is by far the best! Having tried the traditional models for small group ministry for over eight years, I discovered that most people simply don't have the interest or commitment to gather with brothers and sisters based on geographical location. They have all failed. But this past Sunday, three months after having read Haggard's book, our congregation is already beginning our first semester of small groups, and the excitement surpasses anything I've experienced. This book will transform your church and your community. And the priesthood of believers will move more fully into their ministries than ever before!
Fr Greg Evans, Pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd in Chelsea, Alabama
Freemarket Cell groups.......2006-07-26
I bought this bought this book because I do respect Ted Haggard ministry and his books. After reading the book, I bought another 2 for my pastors. By the time I wrote this review I bought another 10 books for friends in ministry. I do think that this book is a great resource for anybody that want to grow his church
Bait and Switch.......2005-05-08
Despite this book's title, the author provides no useful information regarding the art of angling with flies, and readers seeking advice on fishing the waters of Colorado, where the author lives, should look elsewhere.
Excellent, insightful, and thought-provoking........2004-04-23
This book blows the doors off of mainstream accepted taboos in our culture. After personally experiencing the highs and lows of traditional cell-based groups, I was at a point of wondering why change was not being made in churches. Then, I came across this book. In it, Ted delightfully shows how a church can face change and come out of it truly blessed. Thanks so much for sharing your results, and your honesty! We are all blessed, because of it. I exhort other churches to openly test their waters and see if this book and what it presents can be applied in their congregations. And... as we all know... this book, and the concepts it speaks of... will evolve as they continue to understand the power of God more fully in their midst.
Book Description
Taking trout on lightweight rods with flies as small as size 20 and 30 is a challenge. Learn to imitate midges' trailing shucks and drowned adults, tie tiny parachutes and white-winged Tricos, and create patterns that mimic micro-caddis and micro scuds. Engle covers small fly history, tying tools, and materials. Tips on fishing techniques come from Ed Engle's 30 years of experience fishing small flies on the South Platte River. Included is information on choosing the right hook, thread, wire, and amount of weight for small flies.
Customer Reviews:
Good selection of easy to tie flys!.......2005-08-04
I'm not as cordinated as I was when I was younger and this book has many quick and easy to tie flys. It focuses on simplicity and flys that work.
Mariano, Martin, Koch & Holbrook and now Engle.......2004-03-22
There are a few really sound books that address tying small patterns. Vince Mariano's In the Ring of the Rise, Darrel Martin's Micropatterns, Holbrook & Koch's Midge Magic and now Ed Engle's Tying Small Flies.
If you followed Mr. Engle's column in Fly Tyer Magazine then you know how clearly Mr. Engle writes. His writing style (like his flies) is brief, concise and well thought out. This book is much more than a collection of the Fly Tyer articles (though it does contain updated versions of those articles) - it is an exploration of how a "regular guy" ties these little flies for tailwaters.
I recommend adding this book to your collection along with the predecessors. Any fly fisher wanting to explore these flies will benefit from all of these books. I know I have.
Tying Flies for Spring Creeks and Tailwaters.......2004-01-16
This is a very nicely done book on small (size 20 and down) flies of the variety typically used for selective trout on tailwaters and spring creeks. It reviews familar patterns like RS2's for example, but has ample new material surveying hooks, fine threads and tying techniques. I like Ed's style of writing as it seems to convey years of experience fishing tiny dries for selective trout in a low key writing fashion. Fills a gap along the lines of a modern Koch's Fishing the Midge, only wider in scope and greater in detail. Will become a permanent part of my collection. This along with Lawson's Spring Creeks are a couple of recent "must haves"......
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The author, being that most unusual creature--an honest angler--offers this caveat on the opening page: "Many of us have elevated fly fishing (especially our favorite kind) to the highest category of human endeavor: something we don't need to explain unless we feel like it. Of course, if we do feel like explaining it, look out. We're liable to start referring to it as an 'art' and maybe even sit down and write a book or something." The rest you can guess. This is one man's opinion about the art of fishing small streams with a fly rod--a guide that is always entertaining and frequently worthy of underlining. Readers familiar with the John Gierach of Dances with Trout and Even Brook Trout Get the Blues will recognize in Fly Fishing Small Streams the folksy wisdom and amiable writing that has made this trout-bumming author's books of essays so popular. However, like Flyfishing: The High Country and Fishing Bamboo, it's an instructional. This isn't to say it's not a fun read, but it remains foremost a guidebook--and a very useful one at that. --Langdon Cook, Sports & Outdoors editor
Customer Reviews:
Dave Hughes' Small Streams book wins.......2005-04-05
Dave Hughes did it better in my opinion, though it's the only one that Hughes won out. Makes for decent bathroom reading when you get sick of thumbing through the Fly Fishing catalogs.
How to think about fishing.......2004-12-11
Gierach is very good at describing the mindset of fishing, and this book is a very good example. There is technical information and practical advice, to be sure, but the most valuable parts of the book are the descriptions of how to think, act, and feel about approach fish on a small stream. And of course, Gierach is a very entertaining writer.
GIERACH KNOWS HIS SMALL STREAM STUFF!.......2000-09-07
All I do is fish small streams and this book rules.Anyone who doesn't think so isn't really a small stream person, but someone posing as a fly fisherman while it's a fad.I've been fishing small streams since I could walk and he has hit the heart of the subject perfectly.The book is perfectly balanced with humor,good stories and tons of practical and accurate advice-this is by far his best book-and the best book on the subject-PERIOD!BUY IT!!!!
fun reading.......2000-08-14
This is the first of John's books that I have read. He has an easy going way of expressing himself. As I read this book it is almost like being there. One of the most enjoyable books I'v ever read. Looking foward to reading his others.
Just a little more technical than the normal "BUM".......1998-08-27
Not as light hearted, but, a very informative read
Book Description
In his newest book, Dave Hughes covers all aspects of fly-fishing for trout on small streams. He describes how fishing is different on mountain, freestone, and meadow streams and how to develop skills for each. He covers the gear, including what to put in a small stream fly box. Hughes' advice on casting technique is especially useful because trees and brush often require different kinds of casts for small streams.
Customer Reviews:
Not for everyone. That's not bad. .......2007-07-27
Dave Hughes is one of the most versatile, and best, writers in the fly fishing field. When he writes for beginners he explains the basics clearly without insulting the reader's intelligence. When writing about more advanced techniques he does so as someone who's been where you are. This book is one of the latter. If you are an absolute neophyte or if you are the type of person who learns best from photos, charts and diagrams, this book is probably not for you. Inside the jacket there is not a single photo or illustration to be found. But, if you already know the basic casts and knots and you appreciate clear, cogent prose and you wish to fish streams that hardly ever see another angler, there are precious gems to be mined here. The author doesn't make specific recommendations about equipment or techniques for you. Instead, he gives you a glimpse into what has and hasn't worked for him in the hope that you can learn from his experiences. Small streams usually don't yield record size trout, but the challenges of fishing flies on tight, brush lined flows make every fish you capture (and hopefully release) a trophy. When you've determined that you must get "up close and personal" with the trout in all those those no-name streams that most fisherman barely take notice of in their daily travels this book will give you a realistic assessment of the obstacles and rewards you should expect. More important, it introduces you to some methods that should help you to overcome those obstacles, thereby increasing your chances of success.
SIMPLY A GREAT BOOK.......2007-07-21
This is a awesome book for anyone who loves to fish small waters or is thinking they might want to start. It is written in a very personal style and you can learn through the authors lessons as you will your own.
Great information about types of flies to use and how to use them, recommendations on how to carry your gear, what type of flies to carry, rod types and actions msot suitable and so on and so forth. One of the best books I have read, and is in my top two on the subject of flyfishing small streams.
Good Stuff.......2007-03-14
Great combination of narrative and specific how-to. Felt like I was right there. Can't wait to try some of his methods this spring.
Dave Hughes - Trout From Small Streams.......2006-02-17
Another set of very personable essays from Dave Hughes. He's one of my favorite fishing writers, and this book has not disappointed.
Another Dave Hughes keeper!.......2003-09-03
Like all of Dave's books, this one is filled with really useful information and ideas. I've read it twice and highly recommend.
Check out his other books, all of which are very well researched and illustrated.
Book Description
"This charming debut collection of stories. Waldie builds his tales around character, creating a small community of homespun folk who are quintessentially American and just a bit eccentric." -- Publishers Weekly
"This wonderful collection of Montana short stories made me want to drop everything and light out for Big Sky Country and never look back. TRAVERS CORNERS is a terrific debut by a gifted writer, who gets the contemporary American West just exactly right on every page."
--Howard Frank Mosher
"The book has a little of the feel of The Last Picture Show. Waldie also manages a paradox, demonstrating that the decent, more-or-less ordinary people in this pretty nice place live lives of consequence, knit one to another by community, history, affection, or animus. They matter."
--Fly Rod &Reel
"Visit TRAVERS CORNERS for a good read; it's a town full of people worth knowing."
--EXPO Book Review, 1998
"...a lovely, tongue-in-cheek look at make-believe small-town America."
--Arizona Daily Star
"Like the characters he writes about, Waldie's pace is slow and deliberate, and he demonstrates why the journey is the destination. He leads the way to a tiny corner of the world where we can refresh ourselves and still make it home for dinner. Travers Corner is just such a place."
--Woodland Hills Daily News (LA--circulation 118,495)
"A shrewd eye for rural characters, the book may remind some readers of Winesburg, Ohio, Lake Wobegon Days, or A River Runs Through It."
--Billings, MT, Gazette
"Scott Waldie has captured the essence of a small Montana town and the characters who 0live there. Written with warmth and wit, these stores will make you long for a second home like Travers Corners."
--Montana Outdoors
"Best of all, the warmth isn't sappy and the wit isn't just tinsel. Both are generated from a generous understanding of human nature."
--Montana magazine
Customer Reviews:
Travers Corners The Final Chapters.......2005-06-14
This book is my favorite in a great series of books- The Travers Corners series. The characters walk off the pages. They are finely drawn, colorful, real, everyday people. The books help me keep a Montana State of Mind in my consciousness. The fishing, the tales, the warmth, the locale and the humor make this series an antidote to life in a large city. Just knowing that Travers Corners is there & I can pick up a book & experience it helps me enjoy the pleasures/pitfalls of life in L.A.
Keep the stories coming.
Cowboy Stories.......2004-01-26
Simply put, this is a book of short stories revolving around a make-believe small town in Montana. Through his short stories, the reader is taken past the "simple-life" surface and into the complex relationships of a close-nit community. If it weren't for the mountains and trout streams described near the town of Travers Corners you could probably relate this book to any rural small town in America. The two main characters, Jud and Henry, are old friends and fishing guides. They remind me of some of the cowboys that I've met on a few pack trips in Yellowstone. Many of them are expert story tellers. The best thing about this book is Waldie's ability to tell a story.
Brevity is the soul of wit........2003-01-14
I should preface this by saying the I come from a line of fly-fisherman - my father with whom I have fly fished many times, my grandfather with whom I was never given the opportunity to fly fish, and so on down the line.
I received this book from my father two years ago as a Christmas present. He had read only months previously and I had heard him speak only a few hushed words about it. If you know my father that means that the subject of those words is something worthy of respect and reverence.
I was then not long out of college and trying to find my way in the world - success, fame, and all the trappings. Something had been lost to be while I was in school desperately studying to be the next whomever. Anyhow, I remember very distinctly opening the book and reading those first few words. Forgive the unintended pun, but I was hooked.
There were times when Mr. Waldie's simple descriptions of the landscape and the riverscape brought chills to my body. I have been to such places only in my dreams, but now I felt I was somehow closer. And then came the difficult stories, told with such a delicate and tender touch that a lesser author would have utterly failed to grasp. Like a fine cast upriver and into the crook of a teetering sycamore, there's a certain nuance that can't be taught and can't be learned just done. I am not afraid to say that I can think of a few times that I sat alone in my apartment and carefully laid the book down after a story and stood up for a mug of tea. And it was the dust in the apartment that made my eyes water, I'm sure. And that tightness in my throat - the kind that makes your chest ache - that had to be a cold coming on, of course. And other times, my laughing not only made my cat bounce recklessly from wall to wall, but I am pretty sure the newborn in the apartment beneath me woke up. The point being is this: Mr. Waldie had looked me in the eye and asked me a very pointed and loaded question just six words long: When's the last time you fished?
Things started looking up the next weekend when I was in the mountains of North Carolina, rod in hand.
I just laid the book down, finished, for the fifth time and felt that others should be shown this amazing wonder of comfortable honest stories from a small town. I don't know how else to persuade a reader to pick this collection of stories up other than to quote what my father inscribed on the title page:
"Rob- I think that this book will always serve as a gentle reminder that good and decent do count."
Travers Corners.......2002-06-09
One enjoyable walk through a small Montana town. Fly fisher or not you will find, as we have, that you keep returning again and again.
Jud (one of the main characters), his friends and neighbors have come to feel like personal friends. We are anxiously waiting for the next collection of stories to get to know them better!
Travers Corners.......2000-03-19
I found this a wonderful book that relates well to so many things in life, both past and present. You can identify with the characters as to the times you may have done similiar things yourself. Very entertaining, one minute you may be laughing yourself silly and then two pages later crying tears of sadness.
Book Description
Most small-fly books concentrate on the fly patterns, but presentation and tactics are just as important as the pattern itself. Small-fly fishers must carefully observe the trout and constantly adjust their techniques as they go. Ed Engle covers the difficulty of detecting strikes and how to best play trout caught on small flies and gives advice on the aquatic insect orders and how to fish the hatches, depending on the water and the stage of the hatch. Covered too are special considerations for rods and reels for small-fly fishing and tactics for light tippets. Engle describes fishing specific waters, including tailwaters, freestone rivers, and spring creeks.
Customer Reviews:
STUNNING.......2007-01-09
The best book i have read about flyfishing. A must have.
Maurice W. Robertson
South Africa
Great book.......2006-02-19
This book is packed with information for fishing small flies on tailwaters and other western water. Cover everything from patterns to tackle. A must if you like this type of fishing.
Book Description
The best fishing in any given location is seldom a secret, and as more and more anglers fish in such areas, the trout often become fussy eaters. "Educated" trout often focus solely on the small but plentiful aquatic insects that are frequently overlooked by the average fly fisher. Although some anglers are under the impression that small flies are difficult to fish, or that big fish won't take small flies, nothing could be further from the truth. With small flies and Larry Tullis's expert advice, an angler can catch these large and selective trout. In SMALL FLY TECHNIQUES, Larry Tullis shows how easy small-fly fishing can be as he covers:
Ø Trout feeding behavior and its relationship to small-fly fishing
Ø Distinguishing between "educated" and "uneducated" trout
Ø Where to find strike and drift zones
Ø Understanding trout foods
Ø How to select the best small-fly patterns
Ø How to best utilize your tackle
Ø And much more
SMALL FLY TECHNIQUES is filled with clear, concise illustrations by noted angling illustrator Rod Walinchus and gorgeous full-color photographs showing the best flies to use and where to fish them. Any fly angler who has ever been frustrated by picky trout should have this must-read book.
Customer Reviews:
Good info but not a great read.......2007-07-21
This book is very useful and anone interested in flyfishing small streams should at least read it if not buy it. It has tons of useful info about flypatterns, leader design,insect life and so on but does not flow as well as I was hoping. Sort of choppy in its text. Also the pic on the cover is not a small stream in my definition or his, small river maybe, but not small stream. Kinda odd pic to choose for the cover. A good useful book but from a literary standpoint is nowhere near the class of John Geirach, Dave Hughes and Sylvester Nemes.
For once, a book that lives up to the title.......2000-03-12
It was a perfect day for reading. I had the den to myself, and the table lamp was just bright enough to illuminate the pages of _Fishing Small Streams With A Fly Rod_. I opened the book to any old chapter, and like clockwork, there it was: a first person, past tense anecdote, of no informational value but so predictable it was comforting. It was a reading experience I'll look back to fondly.
Fly fishing how-to books are notoriously full of nothing, but this book has plenty of useful, nearly universal information to ponder on backcountry fishing. It's logically organized and mostly direct in its purpose. Meck leans heavily on the aforementioned poetic filler, but each chapter has plenty of valuable advice.
The book does show its age: his choice of heavy flyrods seems out of step with current trends, and many of the brand/model names he mentions have been updated, but there's so much good common sense and time-won knowledge here that it's far more helpful than most face-to-face encounters wth a flyshop guru. It's got some downright argumentation about catch-and-release ethics, and a chapter on altering stream flow might raise eyebrows today, but for its on-topic wisdom, it can't be beat.
Techniques from a master!.......1998-10-15
Only a Pennsylvania fisherman can cover the subject of small stream fishing like Charlie. If you've ever met him you will immediately recognize his passion and enthusiasm for fishing. This book helps you get off the beaten path and experience fishing the way our forefathers did. This book is a classic. If you find it in hardcover BUY IT TOO!
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