The ultimate reference. Step-by-step tying instructions for 500 flies, with sequential color photos. Includes fishing notes and chapters on techniques, tools, and materials.
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It's tough to say that a flyfishing book at $75 is a "value," but Trout Flies may be an exception. Featuring over 1400 color photographs of fly patterns, this work should be a standard for those specializing in trout flies. Author of the well-regarded Wet Flies (LJ 2/15/95), Hughes has a style that is easygoing and conversational, and his patterns will leave the beginning or intermediate enthusiast with a good selection of flies that will be effective in most situations. This is a refreshing change from earlier flytying manuals, which often were dry and dogmatic. The entry for each pattern first provides a brief anecdote that summarizes the author's opinion of the fly and its uses, next provides the recipe and tying instructions, and finally gives some variations allowing several different flies to be tied while only one pattern is learned. Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer (whose photographic talents Hughes acknowledges in his introduction) have a competing manual being published (The FlyTyer's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles, Frank Amato, 1998), and libraries may want to consider purchasing both works. Trout Flies is highly recommended for all flyfishing collections.?Jeff Grossman, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Lib., WI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Dave Hughes is a highly respected fly-fishing writer with over two dozen books in print. He writes regularly for the popular fishing magazines and currently is a columnist for fly rod & Reel. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Trout Flies:a Tier's Reference,
This review is from: Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference (Hardcover)
I have many books on fly tying. If I was to choose one book on the subject of trout flies and tying them it is this one. Great commentary, great pictures and a sensible methodology for choosing the right pattern all help Trout Flies to be the only trout fly reference I need in my collection. Thank you David Hughes and Stackpole books.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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trout flies the tiers reference,
By Stephen Orbst (CAMBRIDGE ONTARIO CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference (Hardcover)
This book is an absolute must for anyone who has ever tied a fly novice or seasoned veteran .Clear concise instruction fanatastic color photography and proper step by step instruction after having strugled through magazines and books that appeared promising and spending hundreds of dollars in search of the help a self taught tyer desperatly needs this book was all i needed from the start thank-you Mr. Hughs and thank-you Amazon for leading me to this wonderful gift of knowledge!
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Might be the best book for many tiers,
By jeffnc "jeffnc" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference (Hardcover)
This is an outstanding book on several counts. The quality of the printing itself is high - 480 full color, glossy pages. Frankly, Amazon's price ... for this book is more than reasonable.As for the content; Hughes' style is his usual - no fluff, succinct, simple, elegant, no bull, very down to earth. He has a great way of organizing the material for you that clarifies and simplifies rather than obfuscates. He's good at categorizing flies into pattern styles, rather than offering scores of individual recipes that have no obvious similarities. He includes reasons for designing each fly style in a particular way, highlighting the way in which it will be fished and the type of water in which it will be fished. This is immensely helpful for beginner and intermediate tiers and fishermen such as myself. Hughes does not tie flies to put in a frame. He ties flies to catch fish, and he knows we don't have all the time and money in the world to tie up a set of our own flies that will cover most circumstances anywhere we fish. Highly recommended. By the way, this makes "Essential Trout Flies" obsolete - there's no reason to own both books. On the other hand, if you're on a tight budget, you might consider ETF as a sort of "Cliff's Notes" version of this book. The fundamental content is about the same, although much expanded in this bigger volume.
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That the trout flies in this book are tied to catch trout, not to place on display for awed trout fishermen, sets our thinking off in a certain set of directions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neat thread head, layer the shank with thread, clip the excess butts, herl rope, two times the hook gap, curved caddis, clip the excess hackle tip, half times the hook gap, couple soft loops, webby fibers, fuzz from the butts, hackle counterclockwise, hopper dressing, layer with thread, single soft loop, short fibers from the butts, take thread wraps, ribbing wire, clip the excess tip, two hook gaps, hook eye lengths, smaller stonefly groups, two soft loops, shellback butts, two whip finishes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hook Standard, Thread Black, Thread Brown, Thread Olive, Krystal Flash, Body Olive, Thread Tan, Rib Fine, Thread Gray, Body Black, Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff, Beetle Bug, Woolly Bugger, Body Brown, Body Muskrat, Wing Natural, Wings White, Thread Yellow, Body Tan, Body Yellow, Wingpost White, Hare's Ear Plus, Tail Black, Wing Light New!
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That the trout flies in this book are tied to catch trout, not to place on display for awed trout fishermen, sets our thinking off in a certain set of directions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neat thread head, layer the shank with thread, clip the excess butts, herl rope, two times the hook gap, curved caddis, clip the excess hackle tip, half times the hook gap, couple soft loops, webby fibers, fuzz from the butts, hackle counterclockwise, hopper dressing, layer with thread, single soft loop, short fibers from the butts, take thread wraps, ribbing wire, clip the excess tip, two hook gaps, hook eye lengths, smaller stonefly groups, two soft loops, shellback butts, two whip finishes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hook Standard, Thread Black, Thread Brown, Thread Olive, Krystal Flash, Body Olive, Thread Tan, Rib Fine, Thread Gray, Body Black, Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff, Beetle Bug, Woolly Bugger, Body Brown, Body Muskrat, Wing Natural, Wings White, Thread Yellow, Body Tan, Body Yellow, Wingpost White, Hare's Ear Plus, Tail Black, Wing Light New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Tying Foam Flies by Skip Morris on page 430, page 452, and Back Matter
- Trout Bum by John Gierach on page 20, page 223, and Back Matter
- Selective Trout: Revised and Expanded by Carl Richards on page 4, page 219, and Back Matter
- Fishing the Dry Fly As a Living Insect by Leonard M. Wright on page 326, and Back Matter
- A Modern Dry-Fly Code by Vincent C. Marinaro on page 445, and Back Matter
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