Customer Reviews

40 Best Trout Flies

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The details of how to use the patterns was very professional. I feel I could produce fish with every one of them. The mid-west review leads a person to beleive patterns are included. Only a shopping list is included for each fly. A novice tyer will need to spend some time finding directions for tying each fly. An extra 10 pages would have saved some of us a lot of work and made the book complete.

This is an excellent book on how to fish the flies represented in this book. However, if you want to tye them you must have some background in fly tying to figure out how to tye them. Other than that it offers superb advice on how, when, where, and what size to fish. This is a great book but a fly tying background would help you more.

I really like the book as I have about eight books on tying flies (only been tying for a month). This book is helpful, but it would be nice to have a color ---how to tye section in the back. Thanks--Dr. Jim, Ann Arbor, Mi.

40 Best Trout Flies

This text was more specific than its title, which is the reason for the low rating. I thought I was purchasing a book on "Tying" the 40 Best Trout Flies which the title does not state, however, the title also does not state the book IS about "Fishing" the 40 Best Trout Flies either. I will however focus my attention on reviewing what the book IS written about.

This is a well written text about how to use 40 different Trout Flies in all the conditions they were meant to be used. Each fly is broken down into its own category and why it was developed by its creator along with how it is fished. These details are extremely good, and if a fisherman were to follow them (in the Northern sections of the USA) where trout live year round, he will find himself in fish. I do not recommend this text for southerners like myself however, who rarely see the northern rivers and streams.

I first became acquainted with Robert Alley's work through articles in sports fishing magazines. With the appearance of Advanced Lake Fly Fishing, Alley's practical, well thought out views on fly fishing were extended to the realm of float tube fishing. Now, with 40 Best Trout Flies, Alley has given the trout fishing world an excellent pocket guide to the very best, tried-and-true patterns, with easy-to-understand advice on when and where to use them. Keep a copy in your fishing vest.