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| Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millennium | 
 enlarge | Creator: Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2127261
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 90
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9 x 0.4
ISBN: 1571882456
Dewey Decimal Number: 799
UPC: 066066004994
EAN: 9781571882455
ASIN: 1571882456
Publication Date: August 16, 2002
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Condition: BRAND NEW BOOK ! !
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Product Description
Watching a fish take your fly on the surface is the ultimate experience in trout fly-fishing. Over 360 dry-fly patterns from contributors around the world make this book useful to fly-anglers everywhere. WHATS THIS BOOK ABOUT? Everyone has a story about their favorite dry flies. The Catskill Fly-Fishing Museum created Flies of the Year 2000, a very successful exhibit featuring flies from contributors around the world. First in a series, Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millennium features the dry flies contributed by expert fly-tiers from all over the world. Over 360 flies are shared, along with their recipe and tying or fishing notes, creating the largest compilation of dry flies to date. The variety in these flies is amazing. This is a book fly-fishers and fly-tiers will enjoy for years to come. WHATS GREAT ABOUT THIS BOOK?
Poul Jorgensen is one of the most well-known and well-respected fly-tiers in the country
375 color photographs
366 individual color fly plates
Fly patterns submitted from expert fly-tiers around the world
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 Less than the cost of three leaders and priceless November 4, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...must be disappointing to show up for a party after it's over...worse yet not to have been invited...
This was and is Poul Jorgensen's last work. The photography is excellent and the flies were selected as representative, a snap shot of the patterns flyfishers are tying and using today.
The book includes many tyers of note....do these names ring a bell: Poul Jorgensen, Roman Moser, Warren D. Snyder, Christopher Helm, Ed Shenk, Steve Gossage, Vladimir Markov, Al Betty, Dick Talleur, Chuck Bushnell...to name just a few...one would have to be historically, culturally and Internet-myopic to have not recognized them. Or not a fly-tier themselves.
No passionate fly-tier or collector would not have this book.
Enhanced with 375 color photographs April 19, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Compiled, edited, and illustrated by Poul Jorgensen, Dry-Fly Patterns For The New Millennium features flies from contributors and expert fly-tiers from around the world. More than 360 flies are shared, along with their individual recipes, as well as tying or fishing notes. Enhanced with 375 color photographs and 366 individual color fly plates, Dry-Fly Patterns For The New Millennium is a superbly presented and highly recommended addition to any dedicated angler's reference collection. Dry-Fly Patterns For The New Millennium is also available in a hardcover edition...
 Disappointing November 20, 2002
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a big Poul Jorgensen fan. I found this book disappointing. This book raises expectations, both that it has something to do with Jorgensen, and that it might have something to do with forward looking dry fly patterns of the millennium. But it is a failure on all points. All Jorgensen did was take the photos, and write a short blurb about taking the photos. He submitted a fly. If he had something to do with choosing the other flies, then I am really disappointed. While he refers to each fly as a "masterpiece", many of them are really poorly tied, standard patterns un-attributed to their originators, or nondescript balls of fluff. By and large there is little commentary to indicate what is significant about any of the patterns. The next great innovation may be among them, but you won't know it from this presentation. My heart rose when I saw a fly by noted tier Roman Moser. Apparently a two-for-one deal, since the pattern description is for an entirely different fly! Whoever said "life is 90% just showing up" would like this book, since in general that is all that must have been required for one's pattern to be included here. The producers could have said it was an unfiltered cattle-call from the end of the century, and "look this is what we got" (somewhere it would have mattered like in the title). Maybe even producing a clever catalogue identifying interesting issues about a smaller number of patterns. It might have been worth it, and it would have been a more straight forward representation of what the book is about: Not a dinner in a fine restaurant, but a pot luck supper. There have been a pile of recent books with loads of patterns, and some loose pretext like the Umpqua book, or books by various clubs. Usually they are a lot of fun. this one seems an exploitation of the genre. Best to pass it over.
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