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Short impressions - Book and video reviewsQuick takes on books and DVDs - books and videos that will not be reviewed in depth
By John M. Likakis A nice intro to tying bass bugs, but not exactly impressing. It does contain some good tips, but dull B/W print and small page count disappoints me in this book on one of my favtorite fly-tying subjects: tying with deer hair.
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By Intrepid Angler If you have plans to go to New Zealand or just want a confirmation that New Zealand is a worthwhile destination to put on your list of places to fish before you lay down your rods, this is a DVD you want to watch. It's some years old, and not quite up to today's standards, but it has an amazing running time of three hours and a very systematic coverage of both well known and lesser know locations, offering a very thorough coverage and a mouth wetting appetizer for anyone with NZ dreams.
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By Terry Hellekson An impressing book. An encyclopedia of fly patterns, history and tying methods. Huge and with enormous amounts of material.
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By Aaron J. Adams 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.
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By R. Valentine Atkinson Atkinson's photos are all over the place: in magazines, in catalogs, in books, online and offline. That means that we have seen a lot of them already, and I have been disappointed before when buying Atkinson books. But this one features a lot of images that I haven't seen before as well as stories in the usual R. Valentine Atkinson style: written by mainly well-known fly anglers.
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By Mountain Media 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.
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By Peter O'Rielly 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.
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By Jim C. Chapralis 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.
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By Dec Hogan 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.
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By Robert Thompson A video about the fabled Hex fishing in Michigan. Lots of personal stories about the fishing, beautiful river scenery... and fishing in the dark where the Hexagenia hatches.
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By Mountain Media A journey to the amazingly windy realms of southern Argentina in the pursuit of large sea run sea trout.
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By Barry Reynolds Endless pike action with large fish being caught from boat. Entertaining indeed!
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By John Juracek I bought this book based on the cover and imagined a nice, large coffee table book with a wealth of gorgeous pictures. A used price of well above 30 UKŁ or 50 US$ indicated the same. But my disappointment was big when I saw the book. The images are gorgeous alright, but the book is a small and thin paperback without the least coffee table effect. I could of course have looked at the physical description of the book: 64 pages and a modest size of 22*16 centimeters or 8˝ by 6 inches. Considering the price, that's a VERY expensive book, and not at all what I imagined - even though the images ARE beautiful.
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By Barry Ord Clarke The concept of small booklets with patterns has been seen before, and offers a quick overview over a small number of patterns in a small handy and not least inexpensive format. Barry Ord Clarke's first three booklets offer 10-15 patterns, some with detailed step-by-step pictures and some just with a single image or two, a materials list and tying instructions. The pictures are very high quality and the average quality of the booklets is equally high. The price is about 4 UKŁ or 6 US$ per book, which is a very low price for a book, but not dirt cheap when you consider that you get about 35 pages in a very small format. Still some very accessible books, which are perfect for beginning fly tyers. More titles are underway with more salmon flies, bass flies, carp flies an many more.
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By FlyBoys 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. Chaotic trip and video, but certainly entertaining.
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By Lefty Kreh This is a fly tying book from 1995 and that's pretty obvious when you run through it. Simple in scope, plain and fairly boring plates of a bunch of flies accompanied by a pattern description with materials listings. Not much new, and not much to be excited about.
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By ron P. swegman 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!
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By John Ball A nice contemporary as well as historical account of the fishing in New Zealand's Lake Taupo told though images, video and interviews.
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By Steve Couper A very educating and beautiful DVD about NZ fishing with guide Dean Bell as a very good angler and instructor.
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By Henrik Mortensen 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.
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By Dean Hodson, John Pearson, Dean Andrews & John Tyzack An introduction to an undervalued and underestimated fishing destination: fishing in the middle of the city. Starting out about a mile from the center of UK town Sheffield, Dean Andrews & John Tyzack take us fishing for urban trout and grayling in their usual chatting and educating style.
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