Flies: The Best One Thousand

By Randy Stetzer

Book Overview

Although any "best of" list is subjective by nature, this collection of color plates organizes many of the most popular flies in North America by category: trout, steelhead, salmon, bass, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878175203
• ISBN13: 9781878175205
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

The one fly tying book you need to own.

Once you have the basic skills, this book will carry you the rest of the way. It does not include esoteric techniques but those can be looked up at the library or online. This is the one book I keep next to my fly tying setup.

Great book

Not much how - to in this book. this is the book you are looking for if you are an intermediate tier or thinking of going commercial. It is recognized WORLD WIDE and has many many many patterns and recipes. It won't bog you down with instruction on how to use or apply the material, but gives you a clear image of the fly, and lists what material is used for hook, body, tail, etc. A great suppliment to your tying desk if you would like to work on some professional looking flies. Certainly in the must have category

I enjoy this book every time I sit down to tie flies.

This book is my all time favorite. It has all the flies that I enjoy to tie. I open this book every time I sit down to tie flies, although it isn't something I do often anymore. I enjoy the quality of the photographs in this book for me to compare my own work too. The books arrangement of the flies was well done and makes for quick reference to find what I'm looking to make. I thank the people who were all involved in making this book for the amount of interest it provokes in me for flyting.

The best compendium of world-wide accepted fly patterns

Randy Stetzer's selection of flies for "The Best One Thousand" is clearly the fly pattern index of choice. The fly selection covers warmwater, saltwater, deerhair, dries, nymphs and streamers and even includes some fanciful unique flies. This book doesn't include flies that are localized creations...each pattern has been accepted world-wide.