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The Best Carp Flies I have been tying flies for quite some time now and it is quite a rare event when I pick up a magazine or book and get the urge to run to my vise and tie up some new flies.	The North Country Fly When it comes to books, there's nothing I like more than focus. A book that has a well defined subject and covers in depth rather than broad has my vote already before I have opened it.	Production Fly Tying
Saltwater Flies The contents of my fairly well stocked fishing book shelves bear witness to the fact that I love fly pattern books. My small book database says that I currently have 115 pattern books.	Das große Trockenfliegen-Buch We don't often review books in German, but it has happened. And since we do have a large German audience - the second largest after the 'merikans - it's not totally out of the way to do so.	Selectivity I recently reviewed Matt Supinski's book Steelhead Dreams and was thrilled with Supinski's enthusiastic writing and his way of approaching the subject,
Steelhead Dreams A very thorough introduction to fishing for steelhead in the great lakes area in the US by renown steelhead guide Matt Supinski. Covering tactics, gear and flies as well as seasons and locations.	Fishing in Grayling Paradise The introduction to this book starts with the following paragraph "I have written many articles about the Warm Vltava river over the past ten years with detailed descriptions of particular streams	Flyfishing for Coarse Fish I have fished quite a bit for coarse fish with a fly in my time. Bream, perch, roach - and pike of course. I even hooked some chub that willingly rose to a dry cast to rising trout.
Take the F...ing Fly THE FUNK cloaks my heart, Hazes my mind, Chokes out fun, Good friends and sunshine. All for a fish That will eat that f*king fly.	Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques The subtitle "Over 1,000 color photos of techniques and pattern styles" lured me into buying this book from 2001. 125 pages at 10 UK£ or about 16 US$ used made it a no-brainer.	The Tube Fly Being an avid tube fly fan and having tied tube flies for almost as long as I have tied flies, I have wanted this book ever since it was published in 2006 where I saw it in a local flyshop.

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