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The Orvis Guide to Small Stream Fly Fishing

Book review: What makes small stream fly fishing so special that there is enough material to write an entire book on the topic? After all, has anyone ever written a "big river fly fishing" book? The short answer is yes - small stream fly fishing is special in many ways. The long answer is ...
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A Passion for Tarpon

Review: "A Passion for Tarpon" can almost be considered two books inside one cover, as there is an alternating cadence where chapters of instruction are followed by chapters which transcribe a discussion between the author and some of the legends of fly fishing.
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Fly-fishing the 41st

Review: This book is a delightful road movie style novel with a great plot, lots of character development, and a host of world class supporting roles - and not least some fantastic locations. And it contains some fly-fishing... and quite a bit of poaching.
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"Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout" is found here

Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout

Self-published: In this new book Martin has tried to cover his favorite fly patterns, and has included 29 of the flies that he and his best fishing friends use 90% of the time when they fish for Danish coastal seatrout.
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A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park

Review: A fishing guide should be the kind of book that is dog-eared and spends most of its life bouncing around your car. It is not the kind that should get a plastic cover and placed gently on the shelves of your fly tying room. This is the best fishing guide book I've ever seen.
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Atlantic Salmon Magic

Review: Quite an amazing book. Great overview of the skills and techniques used to fish for Atlantic Salmon. Great DVD on Russian salmon rivers in the back. Another winner from Wild River Press.
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Essential Saltwater Flies

Review: A very nice book with a great selection of traditional saltwater patterns, richly illustrated with step-by-step photos. Not a coffee table book in any sense, but an excellent beginner's title.
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A hundred places...

Review: A review of the two Fifty Places to Fly-fish Before You Die books from Crish Santella who seems to be a book factory. Each dream location is covered with a brief text and a few facts, and many even without any images. I wonder how these books can become bestsellers. I'm not impressed...
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Book couriers wanted

We need help: Is there any GFF readers who travel between the US an Europe, maybe even Scandinavia or ideally Denmark, who would be willing to bring books over now and then and mail them on to Martin in Denmark?
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The Blitz

Review: Tracking the annual saltwater migration from north (Maine) to south (Carolina) has all the hallmarks of a daunting task, but McDonald and Brown do it justice.
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Fishing Season
I was a third into the book already the first day I had it, and finished it in just a couple of days, which in itself tells how much I liked it. I rarely give the Global Class score to other books than coffee table books with large, glossy pages and lots of snazzy and stylish photos, but this one easily earned our maximum score.

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Plu Stiniog
The subtitle is "Trout Flies For North Wales". These flies may come from Wales, but look like they can be used anywhere! Very systematic and thorough with lots of patterns each with a small description, list of materials and photos of the flies.

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I've Never Met an Idiot...
Henry Winkler is best known via TV as Fonzie on the popular American 70's sitcom Happy Days. Through his newest book, I've Never Met an Idiot on the River, Winkler accounts about his life with the love of his life, Stacey, mistakes made in life, raising children and of course fly fishing. The book is a quick and joyful read that leaves you feeling like you're just like a TV star - at least in a few very important habits of life.

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Bonefish Fly Patterns
Dick Brown has made a good book much better by updating his classic 1996 title, and Bonefish Fly Patterns must be considered mandatory reading for bonefish anglers - rookies and oldtimers - on line with Randall Kaufmann's Bonefishing! and Brown's own Fly Fishing for Bonefish.

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Kelsongasm!
If you are into classical salmon flies, great writing and excellent fly photography the book The Essential Kelson is a very good reason to set yourself back £35.-. Terry Griffiths and Marvin Nolte have outdone themselves.

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Muskie on the Fly
Muskie on the fly? You got to be kidding me, right? Nope. Robert Tomes has written the definitive text on the subject. It's all here, from teaching you how to deal with the inevitable heart stopping follows, to offering some advice on where to go and who to go with.

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Reviews
·The Orvis Guide to Small Stream...
·A Passion for Tarpon
·Fly-fishing the 41st
·The Fish & The Fly Q&A
·The Fish & The Fly 1-3
·A Fly Fishing Guide to Rocky Mo...
·Atlantic Salmon Magic
·Essential Saltwater Flies
·Fifty more places to fly fish b...
·Stepping into the Stream
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Videos
·The Fish & The Fly Q&A
·The Fish & The Fly 1-3
·Stepping into the Stream Q&A
·Stepping into the Stream
·Heads or Tails
·A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
·A Backyard in Nowhere
·Casting At Shadows
·Musky Country
·Fly Fishing the World
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·AquaFly flybox
·Wading Jacket Blues
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