Customer Reviews

Flies: The Best One Thousand

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Randy Stetzer's selection of flies for "The Best One Thousand" is clearly the fly pattern index of choice. The fly selection covers warmwater, saltwater, deerhair, dries, nymphs and streamers and even includes some fanciful unique flies. This book doesn't include flies that are localized creations...each pattern has been accepted world-wide.

Not much how - to in this book. this is the book you are looking for if you are an intermediate tier or thinking of going commercial. It is recognized WORLD WIDE and has many many many patterns and recipes.
It won't bog you down with instruction on how to use or apply the material, but gives you a clear image of the fly, and lists what material is used for hook, body, tail, etc. A great suppliment to your tying desk if you would like to work on some professional looking flies.
Certainly in the must have category

This is a nice collection of patterns. Don't necessarily agree with the author's selection but everyone has an opinion, don't they. Well put together, explanatory, easy to follow. Would recommend this as an adjunct to other books, wouldn't recommend this as a first purchase for beginning tiers.

Great book for fly patterns new and old. Fly patterns in here that you may not have heard of. For the tyer with some experience in the hobby. No instrutions on how to tie the flies.

Once you have the basic skills, this book will carry you the rest of the way. It does not include esoteric techniques but those can be looked up at the library or online. This is the one book I keep next to my fly tying setup.

This book is my all time favorite. It has all the flies that I enjoy to tie. I open this book every time I sit down to tie flies, although it isn't something I do often anymore. I enjoy the quality of the photographs in this book for me to compare my own work too. The books arrangement of the flies was well done and makes for quick reference to find what I'm looking to make. I thank the people who were all involved in making this book for the amount of interest it provokes in me for flyting.