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Summary: Excellent beginners guide!
Review: Great job on a beginners guide to fly tying! The steps were clearly laid out and the hands-on pictures were extremely helpful.(The scenic photos were quite striking and a nice addition to many of the other rather boring fly tying manuals I've seen). The history of fly tying was also informative and enjoyable. The pull-out recipe section at the end was a great idea and makes it extremely easy to go to the fly shop looking for supplies with a pre-maid list for dozens of different flies. Having the tools, materials, and instructions supplied at this price is an incredible deal and a great way to find out if you are truly interested in fly tying (before investing a few hundred dollars in expensive equipment). I enjoyed the book so thoroughly that I bought 1/2 dozen as gifts for friends. The only criticism I have is to the editor/publisher. It is my opinion that the book was incorrectly marketed as a kids book as it clearly is aimed towards teens and adults. The language and instructions are straight foward but the terminology might prove to be too much for young kids. The editor seemed to miss a few details, yet the book was informative and the most enjoyable fly tying manual I've seen.
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Summary: Somewhat dissapointed
Review: I bought this book for my 10 yr. old cousin and read it before I will give it to him for Christmas. I was glad I didn't pay the full $22 as it's not what I expected. Perhaps my cousin will prove me wrong.The problems I had with it: * The photos were small and hard to see. * Content is narrow, incorrect and times, and incomplete. Samples: sentences that aren't complete at the end of the page yet are finished; a description of a dry fly in a nymph section; uncertain steps in the how-to section. (Now how did they do that again?) * The caption to many photos seemed to have nothing to do with the actual photo, and in one case, was clearly wrong. (Calling a dubbing pick an emery board when it clearly is made from a toothpick) * It is billed as a workstation because it includes some beginning tools, I suppose. While I'm sure any kid will love those, the book format is quite different. It wastes a lot of space with 14 pages of Reference Files that are full page drawings and component lists of different flies. (Why not two per page?) * Referencing dubbing tools before dubbing is even explained or defined. * It doesn't appear to be written for a child as the description claims. If I was the editor of this book I would be embarassed.
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