Customer Reviews

Tying Foam Flies

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Skip has given us a very nice little guide to types of foam and their uses as tying material. The book is limited to pure-foam or foam and rubber flies. The intention of the author is to provide a starting point for tyers. I wish that the book included a few tips for adding foam to standard patterns. I use foam under all of my hopper patterns -- they always stay afloat.

I hadn't really taken foam flies seriously until I saw what could be done with a Chernobyl Ant on the Green River. After that experience, I grabbed a copy of Skip's book and headed for my local craft store for a load of foam. Skip can explain tying as well as anyone out there and his patterns are effective. He makes it very clear and easy to tie the patterns in this book, and his descriptions of the various types of foams cleared a clouded subject for me. Buy the companion video for even more clarity.

Dear Skip,
I know that the book dates back to 1990, there were no knowledge as today on foam, but I expected more from a book that deals only with the foam dressings.

I'm with those reviewers that expected more.
Not much, if anything, in this book I couldn't have learned from a few minutes in front of my computer watching YouTube videos as far as techniques for tying foam.
A couple patterns I might try to imitate, but I gained very little as far as new ideas from this book.

I purchased this book for my dh for Father's Day. He enjoyed it and actually read it cover to cover--Stephen King I could understand!!! Anyway the pictures were very good and the directions the same. The only comment he's made is that he wished the book had more info for tying foam flies for catching fish other than trout. All in all, he was very satisfied.

This book was a pleasant surprise...it has a very good tutorial on types of foam and just about every applicaton for tying with foam. Obviously showing all types of flies tied with foam would be impossible to do, even though it does show alot. If you are looking for a foam pattern book, this is not for you, but it does show just about every technique in the use of foam and alows you to come up with your own variation.

I really like Skip Morris books as they show step by step tying methods. I found this book to not contain as many step-by step procedures as his other books.

I have been tying flies since 1993 and I expected to get some fresh ideas and patterns from this book. I actually use better methods of tying foam flies than Morris does. I was so disappointed in some of the patterns that are so ugly. I know fish do not care but I do. I teach a few foam patterns in my basic classes, I will just continue with my own and forget this book.