Guide Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Killer Flies from America's Greatest Guides and Fly Shops [Hardcover]

Dave Klausmeyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2003

From the streams and rivers of Montana and Michigan, to the flats of Key West, to the coast of California, the professional fishing guides who spend hundreds of days a year on the waters of a specific place or region know those waters and the food the fish are feeding on. Dave Klausmeyer details a selection of the killer flies each of these guides have developed for their local waters. The volume shows the flies in close-up, colour photographs, providing detailed recipes and tying tips so you can duplicate these flies at your own vise. And, through an extensive questionnaire and interviews, the author has solicited the details from each guide of how they developed their flies and how they fish them. The book contains patterns for catching trout, bass, pike, striped bass, bonefish, tarpon and bluefish.

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About the Author

David Klausmeyer is the editor of Fly Tyer magazine and group editor of American Angler and Saltwater Fly Fishing magazines. He has contributed columns and articles to Maine Sportsman, Fly Fisherman, American Angler, Saltwater Fly Fishing, Fly Tyer, and American Fly Fisher. He is also the author of Tying Contemporary Saltwater Flies and Trout Streams of Northern New England. Dave appears at sportsman's shows across the United States and Canada. He lives in Steuben, Maine.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Pr; 1 edition (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088150582X
• ISBN-13: 978-0881505825
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,758,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guide Flies, December 29, 2003

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"iaflytyer2000" (Boone, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guide Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Killer Flies from America's Greatest Guides and Fly Shops (Hardcover)

This book is exceptionally written. It captures the essence of the flies that have been gathered from guides and fly shops from all across America. The photograhy brings out the abilities of the fly tyers that were fortunate enough to be included in the book, as well as the inclusion of the recipes for the fly patterns.
This book is highly recomended for both the novice and professional fly tyer.

4.0 out of 5 stars Guide Flies: How to tie and fish the killer flies from Americas Greatest Guides and Fly Shops, June 22, 2011

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This review is from: Guide Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Killer Flies from America's Greatest Guides and Fly Shops (Hardcover)

This book is a giant hardback which has many fly patterns for trout and some for bass and many other species. The recipes are thorough and if one is a seasoned fly tier than they will have a treaury of flies to tie.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly illustrated catalogue for dedicated anglers, January 15, 2004

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This review is from: Guide Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Killer Flies from America's Greatest Guides and Fly Shops (Hardcover)

Full-color photographs on every page display a vast and diverse variety of fishing flies (with each one having been developed especially for various local waters from Michigan to California), in Guide Flies: How To Tie And Fish The Killer Flies From America's Greatest Guides And Fly Shops. Advice by fly-tying expert David Klausmeyer for making and tying each fly, along with its most practical uses, pack the pages of this exciting, superbly illustrated catalogue for dedicated anglers ready to move beyond plain store-bought flies to creating more adventurous, artistic, and effective lures.