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America’s Favorite Flies

Aug 30. 2019
Impressing in both scope, size, page count and weight, this book presents 224 US fly tyers and their favorite patterns.
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Creative GeWe Wet Flies

Aug 18. 2019
Belgian A wonderful little book with Belgian Geert Werbrouck's beautiful wet flies. Lots of pictures, lots of patterns, lots of tying and material tips.
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The Humpy Encyclopedia

Aug 8. 2019
Free It’s hard not to like a completely free e-book with detailed descriptions on how how to tie 12 (and them some) different variations of the Humpy. 80 pages of knowledge, tips and inspiration on a single pattern!
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Fly Fishing Treasures

Jun 30. 2019
I didn’t know that I was interested in collecting fly fishing paraphernalia – until I read Steve Woit’s book
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The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus

Jun 24. 2019
Trout&Salmon When an author asks you to provide content for a book, it's hard not to think "That's going to be one heck of a book!"
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Steelhead Fly Tying

Feb 11. 2019
Extravagant Beautiful photos, lots of detailed text and schoolbook step-by-step instructions on how to tie 24 fantastic looking steelhead flies
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Backwoods Brook Trout

Aug 21. 2018
Review "I spent most of 1949 in utero, gradually gaining awareness that something truly good awaited once I left the waters of my beginnings." A review of Frederick Prince's book.
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Petitjean CDC

Jun 27. 2018
Monograph A massive book, solely on CDC-feathers, -flies and -tying techniques by Swiss CDC master Marc Petitjean.
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The Feather Thief

May 21. 2018
Full dressed A fascinating "true crime" story that tells about the theft of skins from protected bird from a natural history museum in the UK with the purpose of using them for fly tying
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Optic Flies

Mar 14. 2018
History With names that sounded fresh, in-your-face and downright sexy, the Optic Fly series entered the stage like a warm summer wind in the 1960’s cold war era.
Read a book excerpt here
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ABU Optic Flies

Mar 14. 2018
Classics A small book written by Danish Michael Jensen about Swedish ABU's renown series of streamers from the 60's, known as the Optic Flies.
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Designing Poppers, Sliders & Divers

Feb 9. 2018
Bugs This book raises the bar for warm water fly rod lure making books. Elmer Meiler reviews Steve Schweitzer's book.

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