Customer Reviews

Bass Flies

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!