I am looking for fly tying book that covers bass flys.

Recommendations?

Thanks

Duane

Largemouth Bass Fly Fishing by Terry and Roxanne Wilson is great; contains lots of fly recipes as well excellent educational information on largemouth fly fishing. They also have a smallmouth book which I�ve yet to read but imagine is very similar in terms of education and fly recipes.

Awesome and thank you!

https://texasflycaster.com/best-bass-flies-tie-fish-jay-zimmerman-book-review/ - A good book as well. There are plenty of good books, but keep in mind the colors we use (most successfully) in the south are different from most books.

THANK YOU!!!

I liked �The Basic Manual of Fly Fishing.� However, it must be out of print as it was pricy on Amazon.

My man objecte is to tie baitfish imitations. I can usually imitate what I see, but it would help significantly to have a supply list if you know what I mean.

They also have one for bluegill fishing and flies that I enjoy.

Yes I love that one too - I like that one most with the journal/diary entry format. Their crappie book is also great. I highly recommend everything they've published, the only "downside" is I blow thru them in a few days.. so hard to put them down!

There are wonderful YouTube videos of people on this forum tying flys.

My biggest problem is that I get in the middle of tying a fly and realize that I don�t have the materials needed to complete the fly. I will try to substitute �XYZ� and realize the substitute is not up to par. The und result is that my feathers were transparent when they became saturated or the hair I used has the action of a stick. LOL

I will get there, I am just realizing I have to be more careful and selective with my components.

Duane

https://www.amazon.com/Bass-Flies-Dick-Stewart/dp/0936644044

this is a good one...it's part of a series from the author


just something to ponder...bass don't know you're throwing "bass" flies at them

for many years the largest bass and the largest carp i'd taken hit a #12 gold ribbed hare's ear

I now use a lot of bonefish-style patterns and large streamers


good luck!

Well, I just got a copy of �Largemouth Bass Fly-Fishing, beyond the basics,� by the Wilsons.

Kind of disappointed. I was wanting a book which focused more on tying bass flys. Oh well.
(Yes, it has fly tying instructions. I am not ready for the paragraph style of institutions.)

Any other recommendations for bass fly books?


Duane

I apologize if I am not communicating well. I can�t tie this. I have no idea what I am doing.

The last time I went to Cabales this book was recommended. I looked it up on Amazon when I got home and it was over 100 used. Well, I am not complaing, but I just bought a used copy for 11.00

Guys I owe y�all an apology. Y�all are trying to help, and I can see that.

This frustration I have goes back and parallels the majority of my fly fishing experance. I am a self taught fly caster. Why, because I got the bug and could not find any guidance for over a year.

The majority of the time when I ask for help with tying bass flys or bait fish flys the response I get is, just learn to tie the smaller one. This would be like some one asking for help with conventional bass tackle and telling them to stay with a road runner or beetle spin. I have four boxes of smaller flies. I don�t need the smaller flies.

I have ask for help at Cabelas 5-6 times. The conversation usually goes like this.
�Can I help you
�I was looking for material to tie Clouser minnow or a bait fish, what would you recommend.
�have you thought about smaller flies, or do you have a book of materials (well, at least I have one now...) or I�m sorry I can�t help you.

I have sent 4 emails to my local fly fishing club, I have yet to receive a response and it�s been over a year. I show up for a fly tying class and they forgot to tell me it switched days and they don�t even list it on the websight. When I finally am able to attend a fly tying class I am all but told no and that he doesn�t even fly fish, he just ties flys.

So when I go to you tube and follow a video and post the results here and I am told I am doing it wrong and need to go back to the basics. I posted a link of the YouTube video and it killed the conversation.

Someone is asking questions on variations of a Micky Finn. I ask for pictures and was told that I was being a troll on this forum.

So, when I go to YouTube I don�t have a material list. I try to buy materials and I am either told �no,� or the materials I bought at hobby lobby are sub par. (Hobby Lobby is 5 min from my place of work. Cabela�s is 2 hours and I haven�t had very good luck there...)

Now I have a material list and I don�t know how to put them together.

Texasflycaster and Mr. Rex, thank you for your kindness and support.

Duane

Some here are not going to understand this...

Let me put it to you his way. If I handed someone on this forum my 35 cal Saco Bullet mold, lead pot, pre mixed lead, bullet lube, sizing die, and the gas check maker, I don�t think the majority of the people here could make a �Hard Cast Gas Checked� bullet. Just saying.

But wait there is more. I load that bullet 10�s of the lands in my 35 Whelen, a bottleneck cartridge. But in my 35 Maximum, that same bullet is loaded to the crimp grove and then a heavy crimp roll is applied to the straight walled case.

Still more. The 35 Max is a straight wall cartridge. If your dies are not carbide, don�t forget to use case lube and revise the entire piece of brass. If you can�t find 357 Max dies, you can use 357 Mag dies and just resize as much as you can.

But don�t confuse the straight wall brass to the bottle neck brass of the 35 Whelen. If you bump the shoulder of the Whelen it can not only deform the brass, but cause misfires.

This is because the Whelen head spaces of the shoulder while the Max head spaces off the rim.

But they both can shoot the same bullet.

The morale of the story.

While one can be creative with materials and individualize every fly, not every fly pattern and material list will be interchangeable.

That being said, I am just going to have to bite the bullet and purchase several books and a plethora of material.