Sea Flies: For Salmon, Sea Bass, Lingcod, & Albacore

This book presents a collection of 24 Sea Flies that I have tied, fished, and proved effective over the last three seasons fishing from of dory boats launched on the beach at Pacific City, Oregon. 2012 marked my entry to the wonderful world of saltwater fly fishing, but these three exciting seasons gave me absolute confidence that these flies will be winners for people in many other locations. You may find these flies effective just as I show them in this book, or you may modify the patterns slightly by size or color to meet unique conditions is some some exotic saltwater or estuary region where you will fish My confidence in these flies is inspired by several factors, including 1) reading between the lines of a truck-load of books on saltwater flies and fly fishing; 2) five decades of experience tying flies and fishing for trout, salmon, and steelhead in freshwaters; and 3) emails from anglers who have successfully fished many of these Sea Flies in far-off destinations. This is not a detailed, step-by-step fly tying instruction manual: but each fly is pictured, the materials are listed and some effective fishing techniques are described. With a Foreword by Jack Harrell of Pacific City Fly Fishing, this book is full of color photographs and fishing stories to entertain, enlighten, and tease every fly angler who fishes the ocean, or is considering doing so. Please note: I encourage all who purchase these books to take them to a business like Office Max or Kinkos and get them coil bound with a plastic cover sheet. It is rather inexpensive to do so and it makes it easy to lay the book flat open on a desk and prolongs the "like new" appearance of each book. Thank you very much. JN