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Article Laksefluer (Salmon Flies) Feb 29. 2000 Salmon Danish-American Poul Jorgensen belongs amongst the greatest inspirators when it comes to classical salmon flies. His book 'Salmon Flies - Their Character, Style, and Dressing' is metioned by many well known international salmon fly tyers as the book that started them as salmon fly tyers.	Article Book column February 2000 Feb 1. 2000 Books A Selective Historic Overview of Fly Fishing	Article Atlantic Salmon Handbook Jan 27. 2000 Salmon Although this book is riddled with errors it does convey the basic information that a beginning Atlantic salmon fisher would need.
Article Book column January 2000 Jan 1. 2000 Reader This is where it all starts You are what you eat! You are what you read! Garbage in garbage out! Book columns starts here	Article Tying Foam Flies Dec 1. 1999 Foam What stirred my interest in this book was Charles Garwood's article on foam flies for panfish. In this he mentions Skip Morris as his inspiration. During a recent visit in Seattle I stumbled over the book, and as it's absolutely reasonable priced and looked very interesting, I immediately bought it.	Article The South African Fly Fishing Handbook Oct 1. 1999 SA Above average in pattern selection and book layout. Misleading title: it's more of a fly-tying handbook featuring flyfishing in South Africa. Read the review here
Article Fly Fishers Guide to Saltwater Naturals and their Imitation Sep 1. 1999 Naturals If you ever want to know the 'entomology' of the salt water prey species, this is a good place to look. You will become a very educated salt water fisherman if you read and understand these sections. This will fortunately not be so hard, because even though Roberts has a very scientific way of treating his subject, it's not hard to read and undterstand the book.	Article The Technology of Fly Rods May 5. 1999 Review An In-Depth Look at the Design of the Modern Fly Rod, its History, and its Role in Fly Fishing Read the review here	Article Goats and lakes Apr 26. 1999 Baaahhh Imagine a serious book where the smartest dog in the world and several pack goats all named Rufus play a major role! Such a book can't be boring. Gary LaFontaine's book Fly Fishing High Mountain Lakes is excellent - educating and entertaining.
Article 500 tying tips Apr 20. 1999 Get better 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. Read the review here	Article Striper anthology Aug 29. 1998 Striper writings My knowledge of the American striper heritage is not very profound, but I trust that the representatives of the literature that Waldman has chosen for his book Stripers, An Angler's Anthology are adequate. Read the full review here.	Article Euro flyfishing May 5. 1998 Salt A project such as this excellent book is often referred to as a soup stone project. This refers to the fact that it's built from scratch by contributions from many people.