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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 Jan 15

Editorial Reviews

Review
John Barr is one of the best, most affable, and most innovative fly tiers in the United States today. We are fortunate to finally have his expertise in print. His flies will be used by all fly fishers who seek to improve their success onstream. –John Randolph, Fly Fisherman

In Barr Flies, John Barr shares his confidence patterns, the flies that he carries with him at all times to cover nearly every scenario an angler might encounter on the water. When used at an appropriate time with a good presentation, they are guaranteed to catch fish. Barr tells how he developed each fly, gives tips on when and how to fish them, and explains how he fishes multiple-fly rigs with the Copper John as the center of a 3-fly system that optimizes fish-catching potential. John Barr is the most successful designer of commercially distributed flies in the world. His Barr Emerger is an unrivaled pattern for western mayfly situations, and the Copper John has evolved into the most popular fly of the millennium.

Order Barr Flies: How to Tie and Fish the Copper John, the Barr Emerger, and Dozens of Other Patterns, Variations, and Rigs: John Barr, Charlie Craven 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

Sylvester Nemes is singlehandedly responsible for the popularity of the soft-hackled fly in American fly fishing today. The Soft-Hackled Fly, Nemes’s first book, written in 1975, was the catalyst for the resurgence. Now revised with ten new chapters on tiny flies and full-color photos, Nemes shares colorful experiences at home and abroad, the history of the soft-hackled fly, and illustrated step-by-step instructions for tying the flies. He also describes his technique of fishing the flies.

About the Author
Sylvester Nemes is author of The Soft-Hackled Fly Addict (0-8117-1671-6) and Two Centuries of Soft-Hackled Flies (0-8117-0048-8). He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Order The Soft-Hackled Fly and Tiny Soft Hackles: A Trout Fisherman’s Guide: Sylvester Nemes form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

A thorough guide to the classification and identification of the larval forms of the insects that trout eat, all across North America, with highly detailed descriptions of the insects; includes over 80 recipes for tying artificial nymphs.

From the Inside Flap
Ernest G. Schwiebert published the first edition of Nymphs in 1973 but never ceased working on the project, and over the next thirty years he continued his research into the entomology necessary to successful trout fishing. Fly
fishers in the early twenty-first century are accustomed to myriad types of artificial flies and approaches to catch trout, but back when there were still many anglers who populated a rules-bound world of dry flies and traditional wet flies, what Schwiebert said in the first edition of this book was novel and heretical. Vincent Marinaro, author of that touchstone American text, A Modern Dry-Fly Code, and hero to Schwiebert, refused to speak with the younger writer after Nymphs first appeared, as this new book promoted a violation of form that was unacceptable to the gentleman of the Letort Spring Run. Schwiebert, however, stood solidly behind his methods of identifying, tying, and fishing imitations of nymphs, a
revolution in the sport. Ultimately, critics hailed his highly original book as a landmark achievement in both the art and science of fly fishing, and thousands of anglers today carry fly boxes crammed with nymphs of various sizes and colors.
Now, the classic text has been fully revised and greatly expanded—in two volumes—and includes taxonomic details of multitudes of individual nymphs from many different insect genera, hundreds of recipes for imitations, and digitally remastered original illustrations and numerous new illustrations by the author. Schwiebert backs his text with authoritative support from the classic work of numerous entomologists, such as James Needham, Justin Leonard, Jay Traver, and George Edmunds, and colors it with his stories of fishing with legends of the sport, including John Hemingway, Charlie Fox, and Joe Brooks. This new Nymphs calls upon decades of angling experience—years that connect extraordinarily different eras of fly-fishing—to present a lasting, highly usable angler’s entomology for all of North America.

Order Nymphs Volume I: The Mayflies: The Major Species: Ernest G. Schwiebert form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Karel Krivanec has been fly fishing for more than 30 years. Karel has competed in casting and fly fishing. In 1986 he organized the first Czechoslovakian Fly Fishing Symposium. He was fishery manager in South Bohemian Region for 14 years. From 1990 - 2006 he was president of Czech National Fly Fishing Committee and team manager of Czech national teams on world championships in fly fishing. Karel has organized huge amount of fly fishing competitions in Czech Republic and three large international fly fishing events: XVI. World Championship in Cesky Krumlov (l996), VI. European Championship in Kostelec (2000) and IV. Youth World Championship in Rozmberk (2005) As a fly fisher he visited New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Russia. In last 15 years, Karel has shown great interest in promoting still water fishing and Czech nymphing. He visited all main still water lakes in G. B. He published two books (Still Water Fishing Basics /2003/ and Czech Nymph and Other Related Fly Fishing Methods 2007 ) and many articles in different fishing magazines.

Order Czech Nymph and Other Related Fly Fishing Methods: Karel Krivanec, Milan Hladik form Amazon.

posted by admin on Jan 14

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
The history of fly-fishing begins with wet flies, but in this country wets haven’t made much headway against the popularity of dries. One reason is that they often imitate adult insects, which appear mostly on or above the surface of the water; another is that they have been fished wrongly. With three decades of fishing experience and coursework in aquatic entymology, plus leading workshops across the country and writing four books on fly fishing tactics, Hughes (Fly Fishing Basics, Stackpole, 1994) here does what he values in others: instructs and enthuses. He explains subsurface insect behavior, extensively covers fishing literature and history, presents detailed instruction on materials and tying, and teaches presentation-all with numerous photos, drawings, and 24 pages of color plates (not seen by this reviewer). Carefully researched and well written, this volume should be useful to all fly fishers and the libraries serving them.
Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Order Wet Flies: Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingless Wets, and Fuzzy Nymphs: Dave Hughes, Richard Bunse form Amazon.