Bass Flies [Paperback]

Dick Stewart (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Press (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936644044
• ISBN-13: 978-0936644042
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,722,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bass Flies: how to tie them, but not how to fish them!, August 19, 2000

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Peter Vanmier (St. Louis, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bass Flies (Paperback)

This little 48 page book by Dick Stewart is a nice write-up of a number of very useful bass flies. Throughout, this book is illustrated with great colorful drawings by Larry Largay.

The book starts with the tools and materials needed for fly tying, followed by some basic tying techniques. Next are a large number of well illustrated descriptions on how to tie bucktails & streamers, crawdads, Dahlberg divers, dry flies, frogs, eelworms & grasshoppers, hairbugs, jigs & leeches, minnows & moths, Whit's mouse rat & muddlers, nymphs, poppers, sculpins & bullheads, shads, wooly buggers, and zonkers. All of these are fit together in 1- or sometimes 2-page sections each, and thus form a very orderly collection of the basic flies any bass fisherman will need to know about. Too bad there aren't any color photographs included to show the reader what the real flies look like.

Though this book is a nice write on basic bass fly patterns and how to tie them, it lacks a good write-up (in a final chapter?) on how to fish these bass flies. Because this is an introductory text on bass flies, one would imagine that the potential reader of this book is likely to be a novice and therefore in need of fly fishing technique as well.

This book is most recommended to those fly fishers who want to tie their own bass flies. Go ahead and get it, you won't regret it!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NEEDS EDITING, July 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Bass Flies (Paperback)

LISTS AT LEAST ONE FLY IN THE INDEX TO FLY PATTERNSTHAT IS NEITHER PICTURED OR DISCRIBED IN TEXT.SOME FLIES ARE PICTURED BUT ARE NOT TIED AND ARE DIFFERENT THAN TIED.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Hooked!, July 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Bass Flies (Paperback)

The careful art of tying flies is beautifully pictured here. The bounty of information lets the couch potato become an outdoorsman within a day. Put the canoe on the hood of the wagon, honey, we're going fishin