Passion for Pike - Ad Swier

The Dutch fisherman, artist and writer Ad Swier has been fishing for pike for 50 years. Passion for Pike represents Ad’s reflections on that angling journey. Ad explains how it was he discovered the effectiveness of flyfishing for pike, and describes some of the contexts in which pike, including the very biggest pike, may be caught on streamers, divers, poppers and other varieties of pike lure. Since those contexts are international, Ad has assembled contributions from eminent pike flyfishermen around the globe, from the USA and Canada to England, Sweden, Holland and Ireland, devoting separate chapters to aspects of flyfishing for pike in those very different countries.

foreword by Larry Dahlberg.

On page 229 'Fly fishing for pike' owner Peter Elberse has the honour of being the last big pike image of this book, his 118cm pike caught in August 2005.

Publisher: Westerlaan Publisher

Published: April 1st, 2006. 

Laguage: Enlish

Pages: 240

Ad Swier was born in 1948 in the Hague, Netherlands. He pursued a degree in art at the Academy of fine Arts in Enschede. He has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and later also as a writer. He has a passion for fly fishing for pike.