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Flies for Alaska: A Guide to Buying and Tying

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Route's guide gives a manageable list of flies along with a good amount of reasoning behind each. The timing/species charts are excellent in themselves. This volume is worthwhile for all fly anglers, even non-tyers. In addition to providing a guide for tying/buying flies for Alaska, it gives a good bit of how-to and even a hint of where-to. I used it prior to my most recent Alaskan venture and it was most useful. One question: Why no marabout spiders?

This handy book provides a detailed instructions for tying a wide variety of flies that will be useful when flyfishing in Alaska. The book is organized into chapters devoted to a particular type of fishing (i.e., still water, streamers, saltwater, etc.). A set of handy tables matching up fly to species and time of the year is provided. Also included is information on how to fish the various flies.

Another two related books of interest are "Flyfishing Alaska" by Route and "Fly Patterns of Alaska" by the Alaska Flyfishers.

I took a Flyfishing class and this book was highly recommended. It is a another great tool to have.

Rare and insightful inside on the unusual nature of Alaska fly fishing.
a wonderful study of the adaption of the fly fishing to the unusual Eco system of Alaska salmonides

If you are preparing a trip to Alaska, this books describes you all you need, starting from flies to use for the differnt species, techniques to fish them, equipment to use, colthes to take with etc.