40 Best Trout Flies

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Summary: Great pocket guide to the best fly patterns
Review: I first became acquainted with Robert Alley's work through articles in sports fishing magazines. With the appearance of Advanced Lake Fly Fishing, Alley's practical, well thought out views on fly fishing were extended to the realm of float tube fishing. Now, with 40 Best Trout Flies, Alley has given the trout fishing world an excellent pocket guide to the very best, tried-and-true patterns, with easy-to-understand advice on when and where to use them. Keep a copy in your fishing vest.

Rating:
Summary: Great pocket guide to the best fly patterns
Review: I first became acquainted with Robert Alley's work through articles in sports fishing magazines. With the appearance of Advanced Lake Fly Fishing, Alley's practical, well thought out views on fly fishing were extended to the realm of float tube fishing. Now, with 40 Best Trout Flies, Alley has given the trout fishing world an excellent pocket guide to the very best, tried-and-true patterns, with easy-to-understand advice on when and where to use them. Keep a copy in your fishing vest.

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Summary: Great selection of flies---But how do you tye them.
Review: I really like the book as I have about eight books on tying flies (only been tying for a month). This book is helpful, but it would be nice to have a color ---how to tye section in the back. Thanks--Dr. Jim, Ann Arbor, Mi.

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Summary: Great selection of flies---But how do you tye them.
Review: I really like the book as I have about eight books on tying flies (only been tying for a month). This book is helpful, but it would be nice to have a color ---how to tye section in the back. Thanks--Dr. Jim, Ann Arbor, Mi.

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Summary: Take out the guess work!
Review: In this book, Bob Alley shares the 40 most productive flies used for trout. Covering nymphs, streamers/bucktails, wets and dries, Alley gives general information, the pattern, plus the best fishing techniques for each fly discussed. He also gives rod weight recommendations and an easy-to-reference chart of the 40 best trout patterns. Take the guess work out your next trout fishing trip, this book has all the answers. Color fly plates, 68 pages.

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Summary: Key part missing in this nice pocket guide
Review: The details of how to use the patterns was very professional. I feel I could produce fish with every one of them. The mid-west review leads a person to beleive patterns are included. Only a shopping list is included for each fly. A novice tyer will need to spend some time finding directions for tying each fly. An extra 10 pages would have saved some of us a lot of work and made the book complete.

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Summary: Excellent book on how to fish the 40 Best Trout Flies
Review: This is an excellent book on how to fish the flies represented in this book. However, if you want to tye them you must have some background in fly tying to figure out how to tye them. Other than that it offers superb advice on how, when, where, and what size to fish. This is a great book but a fly tying background would help you more.