Trout and Salmon Flies of Ireland [Hardcover]

Peter O'Reilly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 6, 1995

This comprehensive guide features traditional Irish flies as well as proven imports--how to tie them and how best to use them.

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About the Author

Peter O'Reilly is the Game Angling Advisor of the Central Fisheries Board and Ireland's most famous fishing author. His best-selling Loughs of Ireland (0-8117-1025-4), Rivers of Ireland (0-8117-1433-0), and Trout & Salmon Flies of Ireland (0-8117-1610-4) are definitive guides. He lives with his wife, Rose, and son, Patrick, by the River Boyne, near Navan, County Meath. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books (November 6, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1873674198
• ISBN-13: 978-1873674192
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,883,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The only guide needed to sport fish in Ireland...nearly., February 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Trout & Salmon Flies of Ireland (Fly Fishing International) (Hardcover)

A fine book, flies beautifully tied , often by the originator and excellently photographed. In the trout and salmon sections Peter O'Reilly mixes the traditional with the thoroughly modern in terms of materials used and variations on traditional patterns. The title is a bit of a misnomour as some of the pattern's links to Ireland are tenuous to say the least , ("the originator drank Irish Whiskey once and his sister owned an Irish Wolfhound" type of connection), but there is no doubt that the majority of the patterns are crackers on their day in waters well beyond these shores.Each of the mayfly patterns is , in particular, a killer on the particular lake/river for which each is recommended. Peter writes his notes on the various patterns with the knowledge of one of those fortunate ones lucky enough to have fishing as a full-time profession...(detect my envy!), and with the enthuasism of one who is cracked about his job. This enthusiasm is infectious, and would convince one that having pulled the preen feathers off the cul of every canard in Ireland, and having tied up those wonderful patterns listed, that all one then had to do was to place the flies in a frying pan over a camp-fire by the edge of a lake and wait for the fish to obligingly hop from water to pan! Such is his unbridled enthusiasm for each fly that, with many of the patterns, I found myself crucifying myself with guilt, angling ego in tatters when I realised that these were the self-same patterns with which I had flogged lakes and rivers fruitlessly for days!! In conclusion, a wonderful book, if a little over-the-top in the boundless praise heaped upon some flies, particularly some dastardly salmon flies, which I know not to be worth a tinker's curse in hell....(It's certainly not my lack of angling ability that's to blame anyway!!!!!!) John O'Neill ([e-mail])

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An execlllent publication for any angler., August 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Trout & Salmon Flies of Ireland (Fly Fishing International) (Hardcover)

The perfect compliment to Peters series. The author is excellent inhis field. A true professional.