"Simple Flies" by Morgan Lyle is one of the better books that have been written in a last decade. It's title is what it is about. I know that many books are written and have titles that are not what the book is about. Going into this book the one finds all that is necessary to tie a fly using few materials and take this fly and catch fish most anywhere it's fished. Mr. Lyle goes into the tools, materials and techniques needed to tie flies without breaking the bank. Anglers and fly tyers featured in the book are real...they live and fish simple flies. I have found this book interesting and very informative. It's an easy read without complicated techniques or materials that can not be purchased anymore or if they can they are so expensive...
The sub title of the book is "easy to tie patterns that catch fish" so true my friends. And the fly on the cover is a CDC elk hair caddis, enough said.
So simple, so effective. I hate to keep saying this, it's sort of like "beating a dead horse"...I believe this totally.
A tenkara style fly and it can be fished on conventional fly gear.
