Over 400 fly patterns for Salmon, Sea Trout and Grayling.
Full colour photos with patterns and fishing tips.

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Product Description

An introduction to 400 flies, making use of modern materials that have revolutionized the art of fly tying in recent years. Each fly is described and illustrated in full, including dressing and comments regarding when to use it and how to fish it effectively. There are patterns for reservoirs, lochs, small fisheries, gravel pits and rivers; and for grayling, salmon and sea trout. There are further guest contributions from international experts.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127531 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

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Customer Reviews

Superb book for advanced fly fisher and fly tyer
While the market is overwhelmed with fly fishing books for the beginners (ritual AFTMA explanation, what is wet, dry and nymph routine), Bob Church's book "Guide to New Fly Patterns" is for the well advanced fly fishers and fly tiers. The books for advanced are rare, good books for the advanced are unique, and Church's book is clearly in the latter category. The beginner's part is compressed to 1(!) page of tying instruction and 2 pages of tying photo sequence, the rest of over 200 hundred pages is a fest for the initiated - 400 hundred fly photos, recipes and short notes on how to fish one or other pattern. Bob Church makes good use of his huge experience in competitive fly fishing (in his words, he 'fished for England'), globe trotting for trout or grayling to far ends of the world, and remarkable understanding of both stillwater and river fishing. The never failing common sense of the author helps to balance top sportsmen's inspiration with practical needs of his readers - that is to tie flies which catches fish.

Church capitalizes of his numerous connections among the best in world fly fishing. The bulk of the book fly recipes are provided by best British fly tiers - of Oliver Edwards, Chris Ogborne and the like caliber - well supported by renown and completely unknown tiers from sometimes very distant places like New Zealand, Spain, Finland; or Poland and Czech Republic, which lately emerged as fly fishing superpowers. Waste international resources plus Church's instinct for both original and practical guaranties that the absolute majority of patterns in the book are still new, though the hardcover edition of the book dates back to 1993. The only weak point, I believe, is just one page for American school - the best selling classics of Adams and others clearly not enough in the book which otherwise is extremely lucky escape from standard fly listing.

Church's comments on Central European flies are warm and respectful. I could report that the respect is mutual, as leading Czech fly fishermen usually are praising Bob Church before hand. He is well known here since his other book, the popular "Fly Fishing for Trout" Is available in Czech translation. Czechs are only slightly annoyed that in "Guide to New Fly Patterns" their flies are said to be from now non-existent Czechoslovakia.

Finally, one must admit, that aforementioned Church's never failing common sense did fail once - in a form of a versed tribute to fly fishing 'without frontiers' in the acknowledgements section. Judging by how bad poet he is, Bob Church must be an outstanding fly fisherman and fly tier - and he certainly is. But, please, no more poetry, Bob.