The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies

Looking at the beautiful computer drawn flies on the cover of this latest and largest volume by Chris Mann, you might be tempted to think that we're talking about a soup stone project, where Chris has boiled down his previous three titles on salmon flies into one.

But that is not the case.

This book does of course contain lots of flies, which have already been featured in the previous books, but it also has a lot of new patterns as well as a set of very well organized indexes to help you find what you are looking for.

A GFF user inquired about a Murmansk Munroe on our forum, and I did as I always do: searched the web. But I found nothing, and thought no further of it until Craig, the original poster, replied that he had found the pattern. And where? Well, in one of Chris' books of course. And all that time I had it on my table right next to the computer, but never trawled the index for that Murmansk fly

That would have been a very typical use for this huge book.
It is indeed a very thorough directory of salmon flies.

Listing more than 1,800 flies, it's an impressing sensation to just leaf through the book and to look at all the neat computer drawn color illustrations. Each fly is shown with a short description of its origin, history and use and displayed in the clear way that Chris Mann's amazing computer illustrations offer - and of course accompanied by a materials list.

The style and concept of this book is basically the same as the previous books, and it does in a sense replace these three volumes. The quality is equally high, and the work behind equally astonishing. There's a lot of research and a lot of hours spent on text and illustrations behind these pages, and there's no doubt that it earns the Global Class that was also bestowed on the first volumes of Mann's series.

No salmon fly tyer should be without, and if you find an avid salmon angler in your circle of fishing friends, don't hesitate giving this book as a gift. It's beautiful enough to sit on a coffee table and mesmerize visitors with its repetitive but artful patterns and colors.

So what's next Chris? Streamers? Saltwater flies? Dry flies?
We're all waiting...