Customer Reviews

American Fly Tying Manual

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Although not as good as Dick Stewart's Universal Fly Tying Guide, this is a good solid starting point for any beginning tyer. The fly pattern section is a great addition, listing many of the basic patterns you need to learn to tie and will fish the most often.

A great book for folks who have an idea of what fly tying entails, the pictures are great, the " how to set yourself up" informative, but this isn't for true beginners, since the pages are full of great color photos and patterns, but no step by step. If you know where everything s/b placed on a hook as you are tying, great, but if you don't it's all just pretty and fun to look at, but not helpful.. Buy for the patterns, but get some hands on, video or book training too. (hands on being the best way to learn!) This author had several helpful hints about tying and setting up and fishing.. I reccommend having it in your library.

Don't waste your time or money. This book has very limited detail available. It is very short and has only the basic principles of tying and only basic fly patterns.

Excellent fly-tying manual for beginners and experienced alike. Contains fish-catching flies.

If you want to learn how to tie flies and make a higher quality, cheaper fishing fly, this book is a must have. My grandpa bought this for me when I was first learning how to tie and he liked it so much he bought one for himself and that is saying something! My grandpa ran a trout hatchery for a number of years (at Ford, WA; Usk, WA; and Colville, WA) and fly fishing was literally the only way he would fish. If he asked me what I was fishing with, and I told him worms, he would say "bah, worms are for the garden." and then laugh. I still use this book for tying.

i took a fly tying class and book was very help full ,easy to understand, and tought me some fly history

I ORIGINALLY USED THE PUBLICATION 28 YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST TOOK MY FLY TYING CLASSES. I PURCHASED THIS SAME PUBLICATION FOR MY TEN YEAR OLD GRANDSON WHO IS ALSO TAKING HIS FIRST FLY TYING CLASSES FROM RIVER CITY FLY SHOP IN BEAVERTON OREGON.

I STILL USE THIS BOOK FOR MANY FLY TYING INSTRUCTIONS. IT IS THE GREATEST. FRANK GORRETTA, PORTLAND OREGON

flies are not very sophisticated in the way of arrow