What we read and watch right now - Book and video reviews
The books on the GFF bed table. In-depth reviews are on the way for most of these titles
A Little Thing I Tied Myself
Stories of Atlantic Canadian fly tiers
By Don MacLean
Book: First impression
Nice book about Canadian east coast fly tyers and their flies with patterns, with stories of the flies and the tiers. Not impressing, B/W illustrations throughout and color plates in the end, but a very nice read.
Published by Nimbus Publishing 2006
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Casting illusions
By Tom Rosenbauer
Book: First impression
A beautiful book with fairly short texts about fly fishing experiences in general accompanied by lots of really nice pictures by some of the best photographers in the business.
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Century end
a fly tying journey, some originals, some traditionals, some observations
By Paul Ptalis
Book: First impression
Beautiful flies, beautiful pictures. Classic salmon flies at their best.
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Chalk Streams and Lazy Trout
Pictured by a Trout Fisherman
By Robin Armstrong
Book: First impression
Robin Armstrong has been painting most of his life, but also used to be a river keeper. This book catches the life on a chalkstream in beautiful images and nicely written text. Also see our article about the artist here.
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fire & Ice
Fly Fishing through Iceland
By Adrian Latimer
Book: First impression
A nicely illustrated account of the author's various travels and fishing trips to Iceland
Published by Medlar Press 2012
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Fishing Sense
By Philip Weigall
Book: First impression
A slightly more practical and less anecdotal book from Australian Philip Weigall, but still some wonderful stories in a beautiful, small package.
Published by Exisle Publishing 2011
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Flies, Flowers, Fur and Feather
A Guide to the Waterside Flowers, Flies and Artificial Flies of Interest to the Fisherman
By John Cawthorne
Book: First impression
A really beautiful little book about insects, flies and flowers, At first glance it reminds me a lot of the books from my biology and botany studies at the University of Copenhagen, but with a very distinct poetic and aesthetic style in layout and illustrations.
Being read 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
Flywater
Fly-Fishing Rivers of the West
By Grant McClintock
Book: First impression
An impressing photo book in the true coffee table sense. A large, thick and beautiful book with pages up and pages down of stunning photos from the American west.
Published by Universe/Rizolli 2010
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Guide Flies
How to Tie and Fish the Killer Flies from America's Greatest Guides and Fly Shops
By Dave Klausmeyer
Book: First impression
Klausemeyer's style is impeccable although not very exciting. The book is a catalog of US flies, mainly trout flies for stream use, illustrated with a photo and accompanied by a materials list and a short description of the fly, the guide behind it and a bit about where and how to fish it.
Being read 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
Streamers 365
Volume 1 #1-122
By Darren MacEachern
Book: First impression
An impressing first batch of streamers from Darren MacEachern's one-streamer-a-day project Streamers 365. Beautiful images of each day's streamer with pattern description and materials.
Published by Self published, Blurb 2012
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Streams of Dreams
Fly Fishing Around the World
By John Ross
Book: First impression
A book about fishing destinations, mainly streams, all over the world with nice pictures. I read the short chapter on Denmark with a slight smirk on my face. Not much in-depth information, but a recommendation of one of my flies! A recommendation I'm almost sure must come from GFF...
Being read 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 Fish & The Fly 4
Streamers
By Niels Vestergaard
DVD/Video: First impression
Another excellent video in the series The Fish and the Fly, this time about streamer fishing with fishing trips, flies and video from Iceland, Greenland and Denmark and first and foremost some amazing underwater footage of flies and fish chasing and taking them.
Published by Wide Open Outdoor Film
Being watched by Martin Joergensen
The Fishing Club
Brothers and Sisters of the Angle
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 Orvis Guide to the Essential American Flies
By Tom Rosenbauer
Book: First impression
A beautiful large format book with a detailed background story and tying instructions for a number of truly classical flies in all categories. Garnished with tonnes of excellent photos.
Published by Universe/Rizolli 2011
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Trout
By James Owen
Book: First impression
The story of the fascinating relation between man an trout told in a historical and cultural perspective. Trout as food, trout as anglers' quarry, trout as religion and trout as a biological creature.
Published by Reaktion Books 2012
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Trout at Ten Thousand Feet
Reflections of a Passionate Fisherman
By John Bailey
Book: First impression
This book starts with the lines: "If you're even thinking of embarking on the life of a traveller - an angling traveller or not makes not a jot of difference - there are plenty of things to get straight in your head." and tells about the travels and fishing experiences of the author in a humorous way, easy to read and illustrated with nice little B/W vignettes.
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Trout Hunting
The Pursuit of Happiness
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
Trout of the World
By James Prosek
Book: First impression
A stunningly beautiful and fascinating book in spite of its extremely simple concept: paint a picture of each of as many trout species and variations as possible. Simple images: a fish flat on its side on white background. But Prosek's fabulous style and the sheer number and variations is enough to spellbind.
Being read by Martin Joergensen
Ultimate Fishing Adventures
100 Extraordinary Fishing Experiences Around the World
By Henry Gibley
Book: First impression
Henry Gibley is an angler and photographer who has been around - literally! This is most likely just a selection of the places he has fished in his career, and the 100 selected spots are indeed very tempting and appetizing. Covering 100 places on 208 pages means exactly 2 pages per location, and that also means that the book suffers from the usual "nn-spots-you-should-fish-disease". The information is sufficient to stir your interest but not enough to really inform you. Still a very nice book with some excellent photos.
Published by Wiley Nautical 2012
Being read by Martin Joergensen
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