Essential Trout Flies
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323 color photos 1 drawing 8 x 11
* How to tie the 31 most effective trout patterns and selected variations-more than 200 recipes in all
* Step-by-step color photos and fishing notes "Essential Trout Flies will help you assemble, in just two fly boxes, the flies you need to catch trout anywhere. That makes it essential reading in my book."-Rich Ostoff, professional fly tier and author ofFly-Fishing the Rocky Mountain Back-Country A core list of flies that will catch trout anywhere, in every season, this collection includes the most important patterns in a wide range of styles, from dry flies to streamers. The tying steps for each pattern are illustrated in step-by-step photos with detailed captions, followed by photos and recipes for the six most useful variations-217 patterns in all. Each chapter features a description of the insect the pattern imitates as well as expert information on how and when to fish the fly. Dave Hughes is among the most widely published authors in fly fishing. He writes a column for Fly Rod & Reel and contributes to all the major fly fishing magazines. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Best fly fishing book - BAR NONE!!
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I have been involved in fly fishing for 8 years and fly tying for 7. Over that time I have assembled a library of books and scoured the internet for information related to this sport. In all my years of research this book has been the most informative in both fishing and tying. The way he has organized the information is tremendous. It is very simple to understand, yet is overflowing with valuable information. I keep coming back time and time again. If I were to put a dollar value on what this book is worth to me it would be in the hundreds of dollars. To think that I picked it up for $10 blows my mind. Buy this book and I know it will be one you get your money's worth. This is by far the most valuable resource in my fly fishing library. I only wish I had come across it 8 years ago!
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The Best Fly Tying Resource I Have!
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This is a must have book for any fly fisherman. This book will help you fill up that fly box with exactly what you need to catch trout. I own many different fly tying books that I have collected through the years. "Essential Trout Flies" by Dave Hughes is by far the one I reference the most. If you can only have one fly tying reference - This is the one you want! I really like the way the book is set up. You will learn about each fly pattern and why it's essential. Once you learn one pattern, you'll know how to tie many others. Dave Hughes list many other fly patterns that can be tied basicially the same way... This helps keep the book fairly condensed and still very imformative.
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Easy to follow with many additional features
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This book came highly recommended to me from the online fly fishing forum that I frequent and it has lived up to the recommendations. Like most fly fishing books it opens up with a good discussion of fly tying equipment and materials. The major sections concern dryies, nymphs, wet flies and streamers. At the start of each major section is a discussion of it's uses, material and presentation.
I like the way it breaks down the hundreds of flies into a few styles. The idea is that you only need to learn a few major sets of tying steps to tie the majority of flies. The book looks at a major fly from each style (for dries: traditional, hairwing duns, sparkle duns, thorax duns, spinners,wulffs, humpies, parachutes, etc.). Then there are pictuers of the major variations. For each style at the end is a note on how to fish it.
This book focuses on simplicity and ease of tying. I have found it to be complete and very easy to follow in my tying.
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Essential Trout Flies
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Very good book regarding a variety of patterns. This book would enable the reader the ability to tie any style especially for west of the Rocky mountains.
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A must have for the serious fly fisherman
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What a great book. Of course anything by Dave Hughes is well written, very informative, I love all pictures! Just a great addition to any fly fisherman's library. It really helped me sort our what I needed versus buying a bunch of flies I'll never use.
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