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Trailside Guide: Fly Fishing

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This book is an easy read with strait forward info to get you started fly fishing. The author cuts through some of the purist b.s. and offers sound advice. While he doesn't go into great detail about all aspects of fly fishing, he tells you what you need to buy and do in order to get out and catch something. I like it because it is small and lightweight. The binding is waterproof and durable so it holds up inside my pack. You can take this one with you to the river. No book will catch a fish for you, but if you read this, you'll be off to a good start.

The previous edition of this book was a gift to me a few years ago, and was my first fly fishing book. Even though I now own something in the realm of 50 fly fishing books, I've gone back to this one every so often and I think I've read it cover to cover at least a dozen times. A wealth of straight-forward information written in an easy-to-understand manner have kept this one among my favorites, so much so that I have tried to get other works by this author when available. You simply can't go wrong with this book; I would recommend it to anyone interested in getting in to fly fishing.

I dont fly fish yet, so I am doing a lot of reading research, this book has lots of photos and easy to use information...I cant wait to get in the stream next week.

Easy reading, Great pictures. If you never knew how to tie that knot before, this will teach you. Makes knot tying easy.

I have been fishing all my life ... fly fishing since the late 1950s when bamboo was all the rage. I bought this book for a post-midlife friend considering the sport, thinking "great beginners book." But when I started reading it I realized, as I do every time I go fly fishing, that I really didn't know everything there is to know about the sport. So I gave my friend his copy and ordered another one. It's on my bedstand.