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Fly Tying For Beginners: How to Tie 50 Failsafe Flies |  | Author: Peter Gathercole
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 57237
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0764158457
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.79124
EAN: 9780764158452
ASIN: 0764158457
Publication Date: October 7, 2005
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Product Description
Any angler who takes up the art of fly tying will discover an added dimension to the wonderful sport of fly fishing. This profusely illustrated instruction book shows beginners how to craft 50 professional-looking flies for trout and salmon fishing. Each fly-tying project consists of step-by-step instructions accompanied by close-up photos of the work in progress and a large photo of the finished fly. Beginners will learn how to make dry flies, wet flies, bugs, nymphs, hairwings, and streamers. They'll also get advice on which flies are best for catching which variety of fish. Author Peter Gathercole is the ideal fly-tying instructor, offering a thorough grounding in the core techniques required for fly tying, while assuming no previous knowledge on the reader's part. As he instructs, he also demonstrates that with good guidance and a little practice, every angler can tie a fly that is good enough to fool a fish. More than 500 color photos.
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 Excellent book March 3, 2006
A. Gonzales (Salt Lake City)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. It is for beginners and that is exactly what I am. The photographs are in bright full color and take you step by step through the tying of the fly. There are a lot of fly tying books out there and I have looked through dozens and dozens of them. Not one of them came close to being as good as this book.
The wire o' binding that lets the book lie flat is just an added bonus.
Fly tying for beginners March 1, 2006
Roland D. Sabourin
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book is as user friendly as is possible. It's ringed binding allows it to lie flat on the table and the size of the book is just right, not too small nor too big. The diagrams are easy to follow and unique in their design. I like novel designs and compliment the author on his creativity. If I were to design a book, this would be it.
The Best Fly Tying Starter Edition I've seen.... September 1, 2006
Mr. Trevor W. Martin (Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I Manage a Fly Fishing retail outlet and would see most of the flytying books available.
Fly Tying For Beginners: How to Tie 50 Failsafe Flies would have to be the best I have seen by a mile. It starts with clear and simple explanations of all the gear names and recipes required to start tying. A great tool for the raw beginner and seasoned tyer both.
Great fly recipes top off a very valuable addition to the flytying creel. Its a must have, there is no doubt in my mind there is nothing like it on the market. The Fly Tying Bible[by the same author] also follows on from where Fly Tying For Beginners: How to Tie 50 Failsafe Flies this book brings the tyer's skills to a high level with clear and simple recipes and picture instructions.
The binder cover is the best idea since slice bread, its sits on the tying bench and can be easily referenced without closeing up or looseing your page.
To the Auther... Thanks for a chance to sell and use this great publication.
Trevor Martin
Pro-Angler Geelong
Victoria
Australia
A Great Book for your Fifth Fly! February 8, 2007
R. Kroytz (CA,USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Fly Tying for Beginners by Peter Gathercole is an excellent Fly tying book. I have been fly tying for about six months now and I have searched for the best Fly tying books around. As far as Fly tying books goes for a beginner, it probably doesn't go in detail far enough. But after your first couple of flies(Four or Five), this book would be excellent. To start off with this book covers a lot of flies, 50 in all. In addition it has a spiral binding, so you can open it up as you tie, which I feel is mandatory for a fly tying book. The description of each fly is four pages long, highlighting the most difficult parts. On the first two pages it gives a detailed picture of the fly as well as pictures of the material needed to make the fly; this is particularly helpful to a beginner. It also tells of the type of fish that this fly would presumably be used to catch. As far as the general info on the book it has the usual Pictures in the front of the book to show particular techniques as well as the basic tools and material used. One of my favorite parts of this book is on page 47. It has a fly selector with pictures of all 50 flies in the book which is very helpful, especially when you only have limited abilities and material. Over all this is one of the best books I have seen on fly tying so good in fact that I bought it for my own Reference.
Fly Tying For Beginners: How to Tie 50 Failsafe Flies October 20, 2007
Philip Johnson
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We use this book when working with the Vets at the VA hospital here in Richmond,VA The program is Project Healing Waters. We work with recovering Vets from the war. The layout is outstanding and is ideal for new tiers who are in a wheelchair. One of the best features is the books lays flat . Each fly showes all the material exploded out by name. It's a great book for new tiers to use when the club members are not able to work with them.
Great book.
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