Pattern books

[flytire 0]

BTW...Someone got me a copy of "The Fly Tiers Reference" for xmas one year. Cost them something like $100 bucks. I brought it back.

I didn't find a thing in there that was new.

 

for someone who is an experienced tyer and knows every single technique described in the book, you are correct in saying there is nothing new. but for a beginner or even an intermediate tyer that book is worth having in your library.

 

You can buy all the books I listed for less than that one book. YMMV.

 

thats not really true. amazon has the book for a lot less than $100 and there are places that are in the $45 + or -range for the book

[whatfly 0]

Planet Trout's list is near perfect. Would add Dave Hughes Essential Flies for the traditional patterns for beginners, and you would be set. Would probably not include Hafele and Hughes, but add Trout Flies of the East or Trout Flies of The West by Ted Leeson & Jim Schollmeyer as mentioned by Tidewater.

 

A lot of esoteric books cited in some of these posts -- interesting texts, but not particulary useful for what you seem to need (e.g. Benchside, Perraults, Bergman, Hellekson, etc.). YMMV.

[planettrout 0]

Fifteen years later, my youngest daughter, Ally returned these to me - last night...

 

 

 

 

I see this in my immediate future...

 

 

 

PT/TB

[flytire 0]

 

 

 

[hairwing 0]

PT,

 

You who are on the road

Must have a code that you can live by

And so become yourself

Because the past is just a good bye.

 

Teach your children well,

Their father's hell did slowly go by,

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

 

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

 

The books look well read ! .....Cool.

[JSzymczyk 0]

"Charlie Craven's Basic Fly Tying" and "Clouser's Flies" are two great ones to start with. For trout flies, "Trout" by Ray Bergman has an entire reference section of classic trout fly recipes.

 

Why someone would need or want a book with 1000 midge patterns is beyond my reckoning.

[hairwing 0]

Hey there kid....

 

If I were you and did the kinda fishing I think your into, I'd look to the genius of Larry Dahlberg and Barry Reynolds. Both of them have done their homework way beyond what most do. Google 'em up if you want some Pike patterns that work.

 

or look here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=larry+dalhberg&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1#hl=en&tbo=d&tbm=bks&spell=1&q=larry+dahlberg&sa=X&psj=1&ei=zkjFUKHCJ6XzyAHe24HYDg&ved=0CDgQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=84f5a3ef8815437a&bpcl=39650382&biw=1241&bih=606

 

http://www.google.com/search?q=barry+reynolds&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1

 

These guys are good!

[planettrout 0]

PT,

 

You who are on the road

Must have a code that you can live by

And so become yourself

Because the past is just a good bye.

 

Teach your children well,

Their father's hell did slowly go by,

And feed them on your dreams

The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

 

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

 

The books look well read ! .....Cool.

 

 

 

 

Yup - CSN&Y...

 

 

"Children may fail to do what you tell them, they will never fail to watch what you do"

 

 

PT/TB

[oarfish 0]

Fifteen years later, my youngest daughter, Ally returned these to me - last night...

 

 

 

 

I see this in my immediate future...

 

 

 

PT/TB

Pacific Northwest Fly Patterns, hard to come by, last printed 1968, what a book your post pushed me to find my copy.