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It’s one of the most exciting and intense fishing experiences you’ll find, and here’s how to get started

Why a fishing summer camp might be a good place for a kid to spend a vacation

A beginner's book that I'd actually recommend to beginners! Great pattern selection, excellent photography and nicely coupled to online videos.

Large feather rooster saddles are different beasts. Here are some tips on buying them.

Some tips on getting your hands on good skin bits

This article covers a handful of books that I would recommend to the new fly-angler and fly-tyer - the angler who is dipping his or her toes in the fly-fishing pond for the first time

A large and beautiful book about the concept of fly fishing covering the subject from many angles, lavishly illustrated with amazing photos.

The publisher Haynes is probably best known for their car repair manuals, but also has instruction manuals for many other things, fly fishing included

Fly-fishing for pike is easily accessible and requires simple gear and few skills - and it's so rock and roll!

The easy-to-understand explanation of what a fly rod and fly-fishing is

This new section of small articles is aimed at the absolute beginner or the one who doesn't fly-fish or tie flies, and has no idea about the concepts of casting or fishing a fly.

This fly is very simple to tie, very good for beginners, and uses very few tying materials. A lot of people in the Brazilian forum Fly Fishing Brasil really enjoyed it.

The quick guide to buying marabou feathers that are useful

The soft hackle is supposed to be - as the name implies - soft. Soft hackle can come from many birds. Chickens, gamebirds like partridge, grouse and quail, pheasant and even crows and jackdaws.

Buying dry fly hackle without breaking the bank

In this chapter of our series we look at what to look for when buying deer hair for fly tying. Get the right material whether you are going to use it for caddis wings or for spinning bass bugs.

Bucktail is a useful and inexpensive material. This is how you get the best

This article is about buying fly-tying materials

I tied my first fly before my kids were born. That makes it about 30 years ago when this is written

Zonker strips: what to look for when buying, and what to do when cutting your own

Why do many anglers stomp into the water and spook every fish in close distance before they even lay out their first cast? GFF partner Martin Joergensen recommends staying on land.

Looking and behaving right on the water matters. Act or look the wrong way, and fellow anglers will spot you as a helpless beginner right away.

Read this article and learn the secret code of the brotherhood of fly fishers and gain immediate respect and envy

I have always thought that complex flies were a menace. On one side I can be fascinated by a meticulously thought out imitation with many materials and intricate tying steps, and I sometimes enjoy tying such flies for fun. But on the other hand I hate tying them when I just need to fill my boxes.

It's often said that fly fishing is a universal language. I can confirm that after reading this Italian book.

Most of us know how, but this article is for the ones who never set up a fly reel from scratch. See which knots will work where and what type and amount of backing you most probably want. Start with this simple trout setup, and you can expand to other types.

You will have to look a long way for a better and funnier introduction to fly fishing, which at the same time can serve you as a fly fishing mini-bible for many years.

"Now there are hundreds of fly-tying books in print. Why do we need another one? This is the book I would have wanted when I started."
- Tom Rosenbauer

Those are some big words. What's true is that there are hundreds of fly-tying books available to the beginning fly tyer, along with almost as many web sites (ahem), videos, cd-roms, and even magazines devoted to tying flies.

Where does this book fit in with all that?

Improve your fly fishing skills with these 10 simple tips. They’re straightforward and logical, yet many anglers overlook them in their day-to-day fishing.

European authors Chris Mann and Terry Griffiths angle for a new spin on beginner flytying books. With barely a photograph and just a small piece on materials and tools, see why this book gets a rare score on the GFF Review scale. GFF partner Steve Schweitzer reviews the book.

This book is a collection of hundreds of small tying tips gathered during Dick Stewart's career as an editor of American Angler and Fly Fish America. Read the review here.

There are many intended uses for this guide, namely as reference to ensure you have a fairly complete compendium as to what you will need to get started in flytying or to use when dropping the perfect holiday gift hint. But more importantly, it is meant for the budding fly tyer, in hopes that the years of wisdom gained through trial and error from myself and my tying buddies will steer the newcomer down the right path

In the most simplistic terms, a flytying kit must only have the tools and materials necessary to tie the flies you may use on a single trip or a single river. However, like most of us, a travelling flytying kit consumes more space than 26 high-schoolers crammed in a Volkswagen Beetle.