We rate books and DVDs in with one score on the 0-7 scale.

We rate most products in three categories:
I   Usefulnes and facilities
II  Quality of workmanship
III Price and performance

These three add up to one average which expresses the value of the product. Products like books and videos are only given one score on the same scale:

0
Stinks - don't touch it!
Products which are absolutely useless and which we cannot recommend. This is not a grade we use very often.

1
Not good - can be ignored
A product which basically is lousy, but might be found useful by a few people - the rest of us can just ignore it.

2
Below average - only for die hard fans
Products which are not particularly good, but will have some fans, while the rest of us can pick it up on sale at the end of the season.

3
Average - No harm done
Average product which you can safely buy, and no one will ever blame you.

4
Above average - good and useful
A good product worth spending money on. It's well made and will serve its purpose well.

5
Excellent - Highly recommended
Get a fiver and you're on top! This is an excellent product which everybody would be happy to own. It might be on the expensive side, but it's worth the price.

6
Global class - Brilliant!
This is an outstanding product which will be the envy of your fly fishing and fly tying friends. Often expensive, but not necessarily so.

7
Xtra Global Class! - Simply the best!
This an unsurpassed product which will be hard to improve. It's the best that money can buy - and it can cost a lot of money, even though it doesn't have to.

More stuff to look at on The Global FlyFisher

A few random articles for your entertainment Catch and release Martin spends some time - almost an hour, actually, and he excuses that - talking about killing fish, releasing fish, fishing ethics, spawning fish, endangered fish, escaped hatchery fish and many other aspects of fishing to eat and fishing to release. November 10th 2007 Uncharted Waters The account of a fantastic fishing trip to the atoll Bassas da India, a place in the middle of nowhere between Africa and Madagascar. The fishing is fantastic, the food seems delicious, the beer is cold and the spirit is high July 9th 2012 Shrimp anatomy for the fly tyer Having seen, tied and fished shrimp flies for many years, Martin feels a need to do a little lecture on the real appearance of shrimp, especially targeted at fly tyers. May 1st 2012 Fishys Favorites Jay "Fishy" Fullum is no stranger to readers of Fly Tyer and other flyfishing magazines. In fact, he's recently been named as the "artist in residence" for that magazine. It should come as no surprise, then, that Fishy's book relies on his art to tell the story of his flies. November 28th 2006