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posted by admin on Apr 11

Editorial Reviews

"As caddis are the king of flying insects for Eastern fly-fishers, Thomas Ames’s book shouts ‘Long live the king!’ This is an amazingly complete reference on one of the bugs fly fishers most commonly imitate with flies."–Joe Healy, Fly Rod & Reel

"The sections on stream ecology and fishing techniques are the best since Gary LaFontaine’s landmark book and alone are worth the price of admission. The photographs and descriptions make identifying a caddisfly to the genus level as easy as using a standard field guide to the birds. Ames’s writing is just plain enjoyable to read, with crisp, clean prose and lots of the details that make for great natural history writing. I can’t wait for the next caddis hatch so I can try out all the new stuff I’ve learned!"–Tom Rosenbauer, Orvis Rod & Tackle

"This book is inspiring: it will inspire you to look more closely at your own caddis, wherever in the world you might fish for trout. And it will inspire you to tie some new patterns to match caddis and to get out there on water, where it all starts and ends, and put what Tom has taught you to use against the trout."–Dave Hughes, author of Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters

* Stunning and detailed photographs of a wide range of caddisflies

* Caddisfly hatches and how to identify them

This book offers valuable tips on how to fish the hatch. Also fly patterns for caddisfly pupae, larvae, nymph, and adults. In the first major work on caddisflies in three decades, it presents the most complete pictorial survey of Trichoptera published to date. Author, angler and photographer Thomas Ames Jr. traveled from the southern Appalachian highlands to the Canadian Maritimes to collect, study, and photograph more than 100 species in 55 genera and 20 families of the caddisflies that fly fishers are most likely to encounter on the lakes and streams of the eastern United States. Based on thoughtful analysis, sound science, and many hours on the water collecting live insects and testing artificial flies, Caddisflies takes the myth and the mystery out of matching the hatch. Learn how you can use the ways in which these amazing insects have adapted to a wide range of aquatic habitats to predict which flies to choose. And learn how to present your flies when fish are feeding on caddisflies. Detailed descriptions and vivid photographs help identify the caddisflies on your favorite trout waters. This all-inclusive book includes advice on tackle and technique and a comprehensive catalog of 80 pattern recipes.

About the Author
Thomas Ames Jr. is a commercial photographer who lives, works, and fishes in northern New England. He is the author of the Hatch Guide for New England Streams and Fishbugs.

Order Caddisflies: A Guide to Eastern Species for Anglers and Other Naturalists: Thomas Ames Jr. form Amazon.

posted by admin on Mar 11

Editorial Reviews

"As caddis are the king of flying insects for Eastern fly-fishers, Thomas Ames’s book shouts ‘Long live the king!’ This is an amazingly complete reference on one of the bugs fly fishers most commonly imitate with flies."–Joe Healy, Fly Rod & Reel

"The sections on stream ecology and fishing techniques are the best since Gary LaFontaine’s landmark book and alone are worth the price of admission. The photographs and descriptions make identifying a caddisfly to the genus level as easy as using a standard field guide to the birds. Ames’s writing is just plain enjoyable to read, with crisp, clean prose and lots of the details that make for great natural history writing. I can’t wait for the next caddis hatch so I can try out all the new stuff I’ve learned!"–Tom Rosenbauer, Orvis Rod & Tackle

"This book is inspiring: it will inspire you to look more closely at your own caddis, wherever in the world you might fish for trout. And it will inspire you to tie some new patterns to match caddis and to get out there on water, where it all starts and ends, and put what Tom has taught you to use against the trout."–Dave Hughes, author of Nymphs for Streams and Stillwaters

* Stunning and detailed photographs of a wide range of caddisflies

* Caddisfly hatches and how to identify them

This book offers valuable tips on how to fish the hatch. Also fly patterns for caddisfly pupae, larvae, nymph, and adults. In the first major work on caddisflies in three decades, it presents the most complete pictorial survey of Trichoptera published to date. Author, angler and photographer Thomas Ames Jr. traveled from the southern Appalachian highlands to the Canadian Maritimes to collect, study, and photograph more than 100 species in 55 genera and 20 families of the caddisflies that fly fishers are most likely to encounter on the lakes and streams of the eastern United States. Based on thoughtful analysis, sound science, and many hours on the water collecting live insects and testing artificial flies, Caddisflies takes the myth and the mystery out of matching the hatch. Learn how you can use the ways in which these amazing insects have adapted to a wide range of aquatic habitats to predict which flies to choose. And learn how to present your flies when fish are feeding on caddisflies. Detailed descriptions and vivid photographs help identify the caddisflies on your favorite trout waters. This all-inclusive book includes advice on tackle and technique and a comprehensive catalog of 80 pattern recipes.

About the Author
Thomas Ames Jr. is a commercial photographer who lives, works, and fishes in northern New England. He is the author of the Hatch Guide for New England Streams and Fishbugs.

Order Caddisflies: A Guide to Eastern Species for Anglers and Other Naturalists: Thomas Ames Jr. form Amazon.

posted by admin on Feb 28

Editorial Reviews

*26 essential patterns, including the Charlie Boy Hopper, Quigley Cripple, Turck Tarantula

This book of practical fly design is for every tier, from beginner to expert. Tying Dry Flies presents traditional techniques and innovative patterns along with clear and concise instructions and photographs for flies that will work for all kinds of insects in all kinds of situations. It’s time to spruce up your fly box with these must-have trout patterns.

About the Author
Jay Nichols is the publisher of Headwater Books and editor of 1001 Fly Fishing Tips (978-0-9793460-1-9). He lives in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Charlie Craven is president of Charlie’s Fly Box in Old Towne Arvada, Colorado. He designs flies for Umpqua Feather Merchants and was the fly tier and photographer for Barr Flies (978-0-8117-0236-2) and author of Charlie Craven’s Basic Fly Tying (978-0-9793460-2-6). Paul Weamer is a fly designer whose well-renowned patterns are distributed by the Montana Fly Company. He is the author of Fly-Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River (978-0-8117-3408-0). Mike Heck grew up fishing the spring creeks of southcentral Pennsylvania. He is an Orvis-endorsed guide, fly designer, and contributor to Fly Fisherman and American Angler. He is the author of Spring Creek Strategies (978-0-9793460-4-0).

Order Tying Dry Flies: How to Tie and Fish Must-Have Trout Patterns: Jay Nichols, Charlie Craven, Paul Weamer, Mike Heck form Amazon.

posted by admin on Feb 3

Editorial Reviews

38 color photos & 7 x 10 . Flies for trout, sea trout, and salmon & Patterns for more than 600 flies “Brilliant pictures and great advice from a master flytyer.” — Mark Bowler, Flyfishing & Flytying This beautifully illustrated guide is organized in three sections: loch flies, river flies, and salmon and sea trout flies. Each fly is shown in full color, as tied by the author or a regional expert, and each is accompanied by a list of materials. The author also provides expert advice on when, where, and how to fish each fly. Stan Headley was Scottish National Fly Fishing champion in 1990 and is well known in Britain as an angling author and fly tier.

Order Trout & Salmon Flies of Scotland (Trout & Salmon): Stan Headley form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

Features over 3,000 color photos and over 400,000 wordsdescribing and showing, step-by-step, hundreds of fly-tying techniques!Leeson and Schollmeyer have collaborated to produce this masterfulvolume which will be the standard fly-tying reference book for theentire trout-fishing world. Through enormous effort on their part theybring to all who love flies and fly fishing a wonderful compendium offly-tying knowledge. 3,000+ Color photos, indexed, dust jacket; 8.5×11inches, 464 pgs.

Order The Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference: Ted Leeson, Jim Schollmeyer form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap
Gary LaFontaine became world famous for his innovative trout-fly patterns. But his life was cut short when he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2002. Fortunately, his final designs were left in the caring hands of friends, authors, and professional tiers Al and Gretchen Beatty, who tied and photographed LaFontaine’s final set of undocumented patterns to create this book. Here are full-color photos and instructions on how to tie each of LaFontaine’s last designs, showing each step in detail.
This is a beautiful book—essential to every fly tier—that is also a loving tribute to the creative genius of one of fly fishing’s greatest minds.

From the Back Cover
Fly Tyer, the world’s leading fly-tying magazine, is proud to bring you FlyTyer Books published by The Lyons Press.Gary LaFontaine has automatic name recognition in the fly-fishing world—he’s known as one of the smartest and most dedicated innovators of new trout fly patterns in the latter twentieth century. His methods changed fly tying in America, and he was nowhere near done when he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2002 at age fifty-six. His death was mourned around the world.
Many of the flies in this posthumous collection of trout-fly patterns are likely to become enduring standards. Authors Al and Gretchen Beatty were working with LaFontaine and tiers Paul and Char Stimpson on an instructional film in the months beforethe fly tierdied. These are the flies that LaFontaine spoke of during filming. These are the flies showcased in LaFontaine’s Legacy.
The twenty-six patterns with proper tying instructions detailed in this book are the final legacy of a renowned American angler. Throughout the work the Beattys provide thorough tying instructions which are accompanied by vivid full-color photographs to depict the various stages of creating each pattern on the tying bench as well as the completed fly. This book documents an important piece of American fly-fishing history.

Order LaFontaine’s Legacy: The Last Flies from an American Master (Fly Tyer Books): Al Beatty form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

Review
"A wonderful account of the man’s life in the sport from fishing with Fidel Castro and Ernest Hemingway, his friendship with Ted Williams and his knowledge of catching fish to his four principles of fly fishing." —-Ken Moran, New York Post

Review
"Lefty Kreh has devoted himself to the learning and teaching of successful fly fishing through his entire life. He may well be the all-around best sport fisherman who ever lived."

Order My Life Was This Big: And Other True Fishing Tales: Lefty Kreh, Chris Millard form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

Hailed as a classic almost as soon as it came out in the early 1980s, this combination of entomology and fly-fishing instruction puts a small insect–the caddis fly–under the microscope to help anglers get big results on the water. Misunderstood for years, LaFontaine explains why caddis should be an important part of any fly-fisher’s arsenal of flies, and his arguments are very persuasive. With in-depth and anecdote-punctuated discussions of the insect’s biology and life cycle, tactics for deciding at what stage in the life cycle caddis are being fed upon (nymph, emerger, or dun), and various methods of presenting imitations, the author provides a thorough and scientific approach to catching fish. Caddisflies is analytical fly-fishing instruction at its best.

“Throughout fly-fishing history,” says the author in his introduction to this important book, caddisflies have been treated as if they were less important than mayflies. They have been the drab sisters, disparaged or ignored, in the literature. On the stream they have been a puzzle that anglers have chosen to neglect…”

But, as Caddisflies points out dramatically, this aquatic insect is of the highest importance to fly fishermen at various times - and the errors of the past have now been corrected. This book is a major study of this immensely important and often misunderstood trout-stream insect - and it was sorely needed.

The book - which is the fruit of ten years of intensive study - introduces new, tested, and better patterns that impressionistically and effectively imitate the live insect. Then it presents detailed instructions on how best to fish larval, pupal, and adult flies - strategies, tactics, and proven techniques. There is careful study of the indicators that signal either emergence or egg-laying and there is instruction on the different ways fish feed on each stage. Finally, there is a truly comprehensive fly-fisherman’s entomology - clear and thorough - of the important caddisfly species, with emergence tables and distribution charts for representative and major trout streams in various part of North America.

Caddisflies thus fills a major gap in the fly-fishing literature. Its publication coincides with the great but scattered attention this insect has been receiving throughout the world - and the book promises to become the standard in its field and essential for all serious fly fishermen.

Order Caddisflies: Gary LaFontaine form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

Techniques and tips from A. K.:
- The right way to hold a bobbin
- Preventing body bumps
- Avoiding trapped hackles
- Producing crisper hairwings and tails
- Dubbing fine bodies
- Saltwater tips
Tying fly patterns using new materials:
- Bugskip Nymph
- Blue Quill Dun
- Mahogany Quill Spinner
- Hovering Fy Crane
- Coq de Leon Matuka

These tips and techniques from master fly tier A. K. Best help you meet the challenges of today’s new tying materials. Part One addresses several common tying problems and gives solutions that every tier can use. Part Two describes new materials and patterns, explains how they differ from traditional materials, and what that means for today’s fisherman. A. K.’s signature Quill Body flies take on new life when tied according to his directions using these new materials. Detailed photographs illustrate the step-by-step instructions for working with Bugskin, Coq de Leon, and streamers. With this book on new materials, new techniques, and new patterns, A. K. once again demonstrates his expertise as a tier and as a teacher.

From the Publisher
314 color photos.

Order Fly Tying With A K: A. K. Best form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

- Strategies for selective trout in clear water
- New patterns designed for spring creeks and how to fish them
- Simple explanations of the major hatches on spring creeks across the country

Spring creeks, those rare waters that flow right out of the earth–in whole or in part–are both a blessing and a curse for anglers. They are a blessing because the clear, cold, nutrient-rich waters grow abundant insects, which in turn grow and sustain large populations of healthy trout. They flow free of ice in the winter and run cool during the hottest parts of summer, providing year-round angling. In many ways, this bounty becomes a curse, because the abundance and steady supply of food can spoil the trout, making them less likely to take a piece of fluff and feathers. Many spring creeks are also small, their challenges enhanced by weed-choked runs and tricky currents. Mike Heck, expert fly tier and guide from southcentral Pennsylvania, the cradle of American spring-creek country, shares the tactics and techniques he teaches his clients to catch these tough trout. Heck includes his top fly patterns, tips on matching the major hatches of Tricos, Baetis, and Sulphurs (PMDs), and his thoughts on stealth and presentation. Whether you fish Letort Spring Run in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, or DePuy’s Spring Creek in Livingston, Montana, Heck’s Spring Creek Strategies will help you become a more successful angler.

From the Publisher
180 color photos, 15 b/w illustrations.

Order Spring Creek Strategies: Hatches, Patterns, and Techniques: Mike Heck, Jay Nichols form Amazon.