Customer Reviews

Saltwater Fly Patterns

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Lefty has provided to both the amateur and seasoned angler a detailed but "plain language" styled guide to the identification, pattern (with recipe) and use of those salt water flies he (Lefty) has found to be both sucessful and productive in the art of saltwater and "flats" Fly Fishing.

Lefty presents the basic information that most of us non-professional anglers can easily read, understand and apply to our most enjoyable past-time.

I highly recommend this very well prepared and professionally illustrasted book for all anglers. As usual, Lefty has again provided me with massive amounts of information and instruction that I continue to enjoy which for the most part, made my mere 35 years of Fly Fishing an extremely pleasurable part of my life.

This book has a wonderful variety of saltwater flies. Most of the plates have a ruler in the photo giving a dimensional reference to make it easier to build your own. This book, written by one the formost fly fishermen in the world, is very pratical in content as well as advise

This is not a book that will teach you how to tie any particular fly. What it will do is give you loads of patterns with comments on tying each pattern. Is that enough? Not really but the book is a great source as a reference on a myriad of patterns by a lot of really good saltwater fly fisherman. Where the book shines is where Lefty gives a recommended group of flies for a particular species. For instance, do you want to know which seven flies Lefty takes bonefishing? In the order he fishes them? Its all here. Is that valuable? This book will always have a spot in my library.

Lefty Kreh presents a comprehensive listing of saltwater fly patterns and their application for various species of fish. As a novice fly tier, I found this book to be indispensable at deciphering the quirky names of saltwater flies. The text is sprinkled with little gems of advice on how to fish these flies. The photos are good, but they could provide more detail in places. Lefty gives lists of ingredients for each pattern, but does not give detailed step-by-step tying instructions. This is not a problem if the fly tier knows the basic methods for tying saltwater flies. The chapters could be better organized; for example, bonefish flies can be found in chapters 13, 25, and 28. The chapters are numbered in the table of contents, but not numbered in the text.