Short takes

Short reviews of things that we've read or seen, but not reviewed in-depth.

The 3rd edition of AK bests all-time classic on tying flies as a boss. For people who want to learn to tie neat and durable flies efficiently.
The subtitle says An Extraordinary Fly Fishing Film, and that's what this is. Fantastic scenery and beautifully filmed in well known and lesser known fly-fishing destinations.
A fascinating and beautiful feature from the Alphonse and St. Francois Atolls in the Seychelles, where we follow five local fishing guides as they pursue their favorite fish
Massive and impressing are words that come to mind when you first see Sean Gallagher's two volume epic work on wild steelhead. 673 large format pages. Not cheap, but certainly an enormous amount of...
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...
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 UK£ or 50 US$ indicated the same. But my...
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...
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...
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...

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