FLY TYING BOOKS

Pattern book of famous Irish flies. Featuring Salmon, Trout and Sea Trout flies. Full colour photos and tying menu. Written by the famous Irish Angler and Ghillie, Peter O’Reilly

This reprint is most welcome as part of the very worthy trilogy of trout & salmon books, an excellent reference for fishing flies North of the Border.
By Stan Headley

Pattern book of famous Welsh flies. Featuring Salmon,Trout and Sae Trout flies. Written by the renowned Moc Morgan.

Bookk of patterns and tying techniques using the fabulous material ’CDC’. Written by the well known Dutch angler Leon Links and featuring patterns from some of the worlds best fly fishermen.

An introduction to 400 flies, making use of modern materials that have revolutionized the art of fly tying in recent years. Each fly is described and illustrated in full, including dressing and comments regarding when to use it and how to fish it effectively. There are patterns for reservoirs, lochs, small fisheries, gravel pits and rivers; and for grayling, salmon and sea trout. There are further guest contributions from international experts.

Patsy Deery has over fifty years experience of fishing Ireland’s loughs and rivers. This is the result of his search for fly-patterns which have accounted for substantial numbers of fish, and to show the huge diversity of patterns that can be used during "The Mayfly".

An introduction to fly-tying that assumes no prior knowledge or experience.

Includes classic wet and dry trout flies as well as nymphs, lures and a range of salmon flies The ability to tie your own flies gives an added dimension to the angler’s sport.

This book is addressed to new-comers to the art and craft of fly-tying and assumes no prior knowledge or experience.

With a double-page spread devoted to each pattern, featuring step-by-step instructions in full colour, and ring bound so that in will lie flat on the bench or table top beside the fly-tying vice, this is the ideal reference book for anglers who wish to tie their own versions of the most successful patterns in current use.

The book starts with an introduction to fly-tying basics, material, equipment and techniques. The flies themselves are divided into five categories, Dry Flies, Nymphs and Bugs, Wet Flies, Streamers, and Hairwings and cover patterns that have a proven record of success in catching rainbow and brown trout, sea trout, salmon and grayling in rivers and lakes throughout the world.

A well illustrated book about one man’s way with hair in fly-tying. Gordon MacKenzie has dedicated some considerable time into developing the styles and techniques used in this book, Some very interesting techniques on how to handle hair, through all areas of tying from Trout to Salmon and beyond.

The most comprehensive directory of Salmon flies ever published. Respected international fly tying author Chris Mann has been studying salmon flies and their inventors for 30 years. Here is the end result.

Goddard has fished for trout everywhere from the U.K. to Kenya, from New Zealand to the American West, using every variety of fly.


Goddard blends traditional natural furs and feathers with a wide variety of artificial materials like Lurex, Antron, poly yarn, Krystal Flash, and Microfibetts. He details his insights on such creations as the black fly, the black gnat, the Blue-Winged Olive Dun, the copperknob, the damsel wiggle nymph, and more.

Everyone has a story about their favorite dry flies. The Catskill Fly-Fishing Museum created Flies of the Year 2000, a very successful exhibit featuring flies from contributors around the world. First in a series, Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millennium features the dry flies contributed by expert fly-tiers from all over the world. Over 360 flies are shared, along with their recipe and tying or fishing notes, creating the largest compilation of dry flies to date. The variety in these flies is amazing. This is a book fly-fishers and fly-tiers will enjoy for years to come.

WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THIS BOOK?
• Poul Jorgensen is one of the most well-known and well-respected fly-tiers in the country
• 375 color photographs
• 366 individual color fly plates
• Fly patterns submitted from expert fly-tiers around the world

Internationally acclaimed for his fly-tying skills and imitative fly-patterns, Oliver describes step-by-step in highly detailed illustrations and written instructions, the tying of twenty of his key patterns.

His skills in conveying the techniques required are excellent, and both his superb sketches and writing style are clear and concise and lead you through each stage of the pattern with ease.

For this New Edition, the Flyfisher’s Classic Library have commissioned new photographs of the flies by fly-tier and photographer Terry Griffiths to accompany the text.
Each fly is depicted in superb detail where the technical and artistic skill can be truly appreciated.

A guide to help the angler choose the right artificial fly, including macro-photography of insect life combined with selections of the most lookalike lure.

The book suggests that the angler observes the insect that seems to attract the most, and choose a fly from the photographs supplied.

Mike Harding, broadcaster, comedian, experienced fly fisherman, and author of a monthly column in Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine, has written a guide to tying one of the most well-loved and beguiling traditions of fly: the Northern Spider.

These designs of fly, conceived in the north of England around Bolton Abbey in the Yorksire Dales near Skipton, are renowned for being both simple to tie and excellent for catching fish. They are characterized by using brightly colored silk threads, and the feathers of birds like snipe, woodcock, and pheasant.

Mike Harding covers some 50 variants of fly, as well as the techniques of tying and the history of the North Country tradition. The book features his own superb close-focus photography, and is laid out in the same style as The Fly-Tying Bible.