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Summary: This is the best selling fly-tying book of all time.
Review: First released in 1994, this title comes in two versions: An 8 1/2 x 11" hardcover for $19.95, and the fly-shop favorite, 8 1/2 x 11" hardcover concealed wire-o binding for $23.95 (this allows the book to lay flat so that the tier's hands are free). Cowles Creative Publishing is the only publisher in the world that produces hardcover books, filled with hundreds of beautifully-detailed four color photographs,
for such reasonable prices. We are truly creating cadilacs and selling them for chevy prices.
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Summary: Greatest Fly Tying Book
Review: I have 4 tying books and have been interested in tying for years but as soon as I recieved this book I became addicted.I also have the CD-Rom of the same title and both are more helpful than any information I have gotten anywhere else.If you want to help someone start tying flies or already know how and just want to get better this is a must buy.The CD-Rom also has movies on every technique you would ever possibly need. Buy this book!!!!!
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Summary: Outstanding for the beginner and the novice
Review: I have reviewed a number of books on this subject and this one by far is the most easily understood. The illustrations are clearly printed and the subject matter is thorough from beginning to end. I highly recommend this book for those truly interested in learning to tie flies.
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Summary: The Art of Fly Tying CD-Rom
Review: If you are just getting started at fly tying then this CD-Rom is a must have. It will show you just about everything that you will need to know to tie great flys, and the tools needed to tie them. The videos are one of the best instructional aids you can have for fly tying, and the fly catalog is more than enough for just about any kind of fishing.You will not regreat buying this CD-Rom.
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Summary: The Art of Fly Tying CD-Rom
Review: If you are just getting started at fly tying then this CD-Rom is a must have. It will show you just about everything that you will need to know to tie great flys, and the tools needed to tie them. The videos are one of the best instructional aids you can have for fly tying, and the fly catalog is more than enough for just about any kind of fishing.You will not regreat buying this CD-Rom.
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Summary: A Very Beautiful Book
Review: In The Art of Fly Tying, fly fishermen find many ways to tie high-quality, well-crafted classical flies, and most popular fly patterns. The book itself is a work of art. All color pages full of beautifull photographs.
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Summary: Betty Crocker would have written this had she fished.
Review: No longer limited to stuffy old Englishmen and elitist trout snobs, fly fishing has come to the masses. "The Art of Fly Tying" provides an easy entry into the mysterious world of imitation insects, minnows and other critters that fish eat. The book's sharp and colorful closeups are typical of the macro lens and high-intensity light photography that Cy De Cosse and company have become known for in their many other "how to" guides...from microwave cook books to sewing primers.
This book actually combines the two latter themes by giving "recipes" of thread and other ingredients used to make the most common flies. It introduces each major type of fly pattern with a precisely photographed, step-by-step example using the basic tying techniques. If the fictional Betty Crocker had fished instead of cooked, this is the book she would have written. "The Art of Fly Tying" also includes some science: A simple introduction to insects and other aquatic dwellers' life cycles. And to the welcome relief of readers feeling overwhelmed by the presumptuous jargon of more advanced fly tying guides, Van Vliet illustrates and explains fly tying equipment. A simple photograph of five types of bobbins, for example, saves the rookie from embarassing himself at the fly shop...since none resemble what you'd find in a sewing machine.
With its handy spiral binding, the book stays open and the pages lay flat for easy reference while you work, typical of the common sense approach the author takes throughout.
It's one book you can't WAIT to put down, so you can pick up your tying tools and start cooking.
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Summary: Fly Tying Cookbook
Review: This book is great to see step by step how to tie flies. The pictures are well done. It is easy to see what is going on at each step. You can even determine lengths of materials from measuring against hook length. The book leaves very little to guessing. What you guess is really more of a show of creativity and style.
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Summary: What a great resource
Review: This CD really, really helped me to learn to tie flies better. I had minimal instruction, and was trying to teach myself from books. The value of a CD-ROM package is that you can see video demonstrations of many (but unfortunately, not all) the techniques needed to tie flies. The video of how to spin deer hair flies really helped me because I could see how much hair to use, how to pass the thread around the hook shank, and how to pack the hair -- something that is difficult to glean from a written description or picture in a book. This CD covers only the basic techniques used in fly tying, but does so very well. The different areas are easy to navigate, and you can jump from place to place easily with a click or two of the mouse. The video and still images are clear and large enough to show good detail. This CD-ROM also has hundreds of fly pattern recipes with a searchable fly pattern index making it a good reference source. However, only a few patterns have "how-to" tying videos from start to finish. Yet, each fly does have instruction on how to perform each generic technique needed to tie the fly. If you are a beginner and you get this CD you will like it. I also recommend getting the accompanying book by the same name. The same information appears in it, but I found it useful to watch the videos on the CD-ROM and then tie the fly at my bench with the book open to the same page.
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Summary: What a great resource
Review: This CD really, really helped me to learn to tie flies better. I had minimal instruction, and was trying to teach myself from books. The value of a CD-ROM package is that you can see video demonstrations of many (but unfortunately, not all) the techniques needed to tie flies. The video of how to spin deer hair flies really helped me because I could see how much hair to use, how to pass the thread around the hook shank, and how to pack the hair -- something that is difficult to glean from a written description or picture in a book. This CD covers only the basic techniques used in fly tying, but does so very well. The different areas are easy to navigate, and you can jump from place to place easily with a click or two of the mouse. The video and still images are clear and large enough to show good detail. This CD-ROM also has hundreds of fly pattern recipes with a searchable fly pattern index making it a good reference source. However, only a few patterns have "how-to" tying videos from start to finish. Yet, each fly does have instruction on how to perform each generic technique needed to tie the fly. If you are a beginner and you get this CD you will like it. I also recommend getting the accompanying book by the same name. The same information appears in it, but I found it useful to watch the videos on the CD-ROM and then tie the fly at my bench with the book open to the same page.
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