Any place where fresh and salt water merge is likely a thriving environment easily accessed by wading or fishing from a small boat, canoe, or kayak with many little known hot spots for taking saltwater species on light tackle. Saltwater fly fishing doesn't have to mean large crowds lined up at the beach fishing with heavy tackle in rough water -- salt ponds, bays, coves, harbors, coastal rivers, and salt marshes are just a few of the backwaters that hold striped bass, bluefish, weakfish, Atlantic bonito, little tunny, American shad, hickory shad, fluke, red drum, and spotted seatrout. Whether you prefer smaller, relatively unknown, intimate waters, or larger, more popular estuaries like the Chesapeake Bay, you will learn what equipment is best for backwater fishing, which leaders and knots to use, and how to match poppers, sliders, streamers, and other flies to the bait fish. Ed Mitchell covers the effects of tides, currents, light, wind, and seasons on the fishing in each location and describes in depth how to fish these little known hot spots from canoes, kayaks, and rowboats. Ideal for the novice as well as the veteran saltwater fly rodder, Fly Rodding Estuaries outlines the many types of backwaters that provide excellent fishing along the Atlantic Coast, fishing under the sun or stars, wading flats, fishing along a grassy bank, or covering the water from a boat. This lesser known area of saltwater fly fishing will take you into less crowded, rewarding saltwater situations.