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Chasing Silver
By Jamie Howard
DVD/Video: First impression
Another blazing installation from Jamie Howard whose DVD's we do love here at GFF. This one follows renown tarpon angler Andy Mill and guide John O'Hearn's pursuit of the silver king in the waters near Florida Keys.
Published by Howard Films 2007
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Drift
By Jim Klug, Tom Bie, Chris Patterson
DVD/Video: First impression
Around the world with fly fishers and fly fishing. A really nice, easy flowing collection of fishing advetures. Beautifully filmed and with lots of thoughtful and entertaining content.
Published by Confluence Films 2008
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Early Season Trout Fishing
By Dean Hodson, Dean Andrews & John Tyzack
DVD/Video: First impression
A delightful introduction to different approaches to early season trout fishing. Presented by fly fishing actor Dean Andrews and fly fishing instructor John Tyzack in an entertaining and educating style. Very nicely filmed in some beautiful UK locations.
Published by Fish On Productions 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Featherwing & Hackle Flies for Salmon
By Chris Mann
Book: First impression
The third volume in Chris Mann's impressing series about different types of flies from all over the world. We love the first two books about shrimps and tube flies, and this new book seems to be a natural continuation of the two. The illustrations are again fantastic.
Published by Merlin Unwin 2006
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die
By Chris Santella
Book: First impression
A mouthwatering - but also somewhat brief - coverage of fifty places from all over the world where you might want to go fishing in your life. Each location is recommended by an expert and described through interviews, stories and facts by Santella. Very nice in spite of its brevity and fairly small size. Illustrated with beautiful Valentine Atkinson images.
Published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang 2004
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fish Eye 4
By Mike E. Wier
DVD/Video: First impression
Video magazine style DVD with a lot of varying types of video and fishing. Trout and bass as well as some more exotic species.
Published by Burl Productions 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art
By Terry Hellekson
Book: First impression
An impressing book. An encyclopedia of fly patterns, history and tying methods. Huge and with enormous amounts of material.
More on this mastodont on Gibbs Smith's website
Published by Gibbs Smith 2005
Being read by Martin Joergensen - Will be online December 31st 1969
Flies as art
By Paul Whillock
Book: First impression
Paul Whillock ties some really impressing realistic flies. People who have seen these creations will know why he was once stopped in customs and prohibited from bringing a fly into the US. They thought is was a real bug...
Few of the tyers of super-realistic flies reveal their secrets, but this book seems to contain all Paul's tying methods, tips and tricks.
Published by Paul Whillock 2006
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fly Fisherman's Guide to Saltwater Prey
By Aaron J. Adams
Book: First impression
If you are into fly fishing saltwater and like to tie your own flies, this is a book worth considering. Running through a number of groups and species of widespread prey, Aaron Adams covers warm water predators and prey and shows all species and patterns in hundreds of color photos.
Published by Stackpole Books 2008
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fly Fishing the Madison River
By Craig Mathews
DVD/Video: First impression
A season-by-season, hatch-by-hatch rundown of the Madison River in Yellowstone. Lots of useful knowledge for any angler heading in that direction.
Published by YellowstoneFlyFishing.com 2007
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Fly-Fishing Secrets of Alaska's Best Guides
By Will Rice
Book: First impression
A guidebook to Alaska's best waters, organized by region. I'd probably still want to hire a guide if I was making the trip, but this book will give the reader some thoughts on where to go and what to expect.
Published by Stackpole Books 2006
Being read by Bob Petti
Flyfishing in Ireland
By Peter O'Reilly
Book: First impression
A classical title about fly fishing the green island. About streams and loghs, fishing gear and methods.
Published by Merlin Unwin Books
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Giants of the Em
By Mountain Media
DVD/Video: First impression
Large Baltic sea trout caught on spey rods in the classical waters of the river Em. Beautiful autumn impressions from a water that has been world class for a century.
Published by Mountain Media 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
How To Catch the Biggest Trout of your Life
By Landon Mayer
Book: First impression
For those who are interested in chasing the biggest trout around, this book is chock full of excellent advice.
Published by Wild River Press 2007
Being read by Bob Petti
Lefty's Favorite Fly-Fishing Waters
By Lefty Kreh
Book: First impression
Another escapee from "Lefty's Little Library", where he describes his favorite places to fish for all sorts of different fish. Man oh man - this guy really has been there and done that. Over and over again.
Published by The Lyons Press 2004
Being read by Bob Petti
Loughs of Ireland
By Peter O'Rielly
Book: First impression
Peter O'Rielly is the definite authority on fishing in Ireland, and in this book he covers lake fishing (loughs) in his usual, thorough manner.
Published by Merlin Unwin Books 2007
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Master your Fly Casting!
By Jim C. Chapralis
Book: First impression
Chapralis is one of the grand old men in fly casting and has taken part in casting competition both as a younger man and lately as a senior. In this book he conveys his knowledge about casting in an entertaining and educating manner, and teaches you to cast through games and practical advice.
Published by Angling Matters 2006
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Modern Spey Casting
By Dec Hogan
DVD/Video: First impression
An American angle on the spey rod renaissance or "craze" with a very practical and applicable approach to this style of casting. Dec Hogan breaks down the Spey and underhand casts into clear and simple types and demonstrates each in detail.
Published by Frank Amato Publications 2005
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Nymph Fishing
By Terry Lawton
Book: First impression
Quite an interesting look at the history and development of nymph fishing, with a decidedly UK slant. There are plenty of how-to's in the book, but the focus is not so much "how should you do it", but "how they did it"
Published by Stackpole Books 2005
Being read by Bob Petti
Raising the Ghost
By FlyBoys
DVD/Video: First impression
Action and conservation, displaying some thrilling dry fly fishing for steelhead (with dead drifted green drakes!), but also airing the concern that many anglers have for this magnificent fish.
Published by FlyBoys 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Red Gold
By Travis Rummel and Ben Knight
DVD/Video: First impression
A combination between a classical documentary and a fishing DVD dealing with a pebble mine project in Bristol Bay in Alaska and its potentally devastating influence on the environment and the fish - sockeye salmon - in particular.
Published by Felt Soul Media 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen - Will be online March 12th 2010
Rise
By Jim Klug, Tom Bie, Chris Patterson
DVD/Video: First impression
Another impressing installment of fishing adventures galore from Confluence Films. Filmed in 16mm and produced in HD.
Published by Confluence Films 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Rivers of a Lost Coast
By Justin Coupe & Palmer Taylor
DVD/Video: First impression
If documentary style is one tendency in fishing video, this is the ultimate example. A deep and profound look at Northern California's fabled and once fabulous steelhead fishing seen through historic pictures, film clips from then and now and the spoken word of a large number of experts.
Published by Skinny Fist Productions/Rivers of a Lost Coast 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Sea Bass on a Fly
By Runar Kabbe
DVD/Video: First impression
13 seasons and more than 400 landed sea bass is the basis for Runar Krabbe's knowledge of how to get in contact with the south european silverish fish. He fish it from the shore, boat and from pontoon drifter. He takes us from season start in early June to the end in late September. Flies and techniques are being discussed, but can it stand more than one hour and is the 60 minutes of bonus videos worth the price?
Published by Scanout Productions 2007
Being watched by Kasper Mühlbach
Small Fry
By ron P. swegman
Book: First impression
Small Fry is the physical incarnation of an online experiment performed by author ron P. swegman and this site in cooperation. A series of chapters or short stories, written and illustrated by swegman and published here during 2008. The complete text can be read online here, but if you want it on paper, this is it!
Published by Whitefish Press 2009
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Snook on a Fly
By Norm Zeigler
Book: First impression
I've never fished for snook, but if I were to plan a trip, this book would be an excellent place to start gathering facts.
Published by Stackpole Books 2007
Being read by Bob Petti
Soulfish
By Mike E. Wier
DVD/Video: First impression
Adventurous search for the soul of fly fishing featuring fishing in all corners of the world with a bunch of fly anglers all with an interesting opinion about the game.
Published by Burl Productions 2008
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
The Best Fly-Fishing trips Money Can Buy
By Pat Ford
Book: First impression
If money was no object, where would you go fishing? This book has some ideas on that, and a gazillion beautiful pictures of amazing fish in amazing places.
Published by Stackpole Books 2006
Being read by Bob Petti
The Cast
By Ed Jaworowski
Book: First impression
A paperback reprint of Ed's 1992 book. The one-and-only casting class I ever took was taught by Ed. What a treat. The man knows what he is doing. It will be interesting to see if anything has changed in the world of casting since originally published.
Published by Stackpole Books 2006
Being read by Bob Petti
The Fishing Club
By Bob Rich
Book: First impression
A collection of who's who and where's where of the fly fishing world, as Bob Rich rubs elbows with the famous and well-to-do.
Published by The Lyons Press 2006
Being read by Bob Petti
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide
By Tom Rosenbauer
Book: First impression
An excellent, udpated overview of fly fishing as you would expect from someone like Tom Rosenbauer.
Published by The Lyons Press 2007
Being read by Bob Petti
The Scandinavian Spey Cast - Part II
By Henrik Mortensen
DVD/Video: First impression
Lots of very nice footage of very nice salmon caught in very nice water. Concentrating on dry fly fishing for salmon and on developing your casting technique. Taking place on Bonaventure and the Cascapedias this DVD shows some stunningly clear water and some massive fish striking in the surface.
Published by Newsline Video Production/Henrik Mortensen 2009
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
Trout Hunting
By Bob Wyatt
Book: First impression
This is a book that gets better every time I pick it up. Some of the photos inside reflect the dawn of the digital camera (i.e. a little noisy), but buy the book for the text, not the pretty pictures.
Published by Stackpole Books 2005
Being read by Bob Petti
Unsinkable Dry Flies
By David H. Cowardin
Book: First impression
A small book on a very special fly tying method where heat shrink tube is used to make air filled parts on the fly making them very durable and unsinkable.
Published by David H. Cowardin 2009
Being read by Martin Joergensen
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