Product Description

John Goddard is one of the world's most supremely successful and versatile fishermen-Lefty Kreh calls him the best-and this unique book is his magnum opus. It's like sitting at the bench with a master, watching him weave the wonderful creations that are well-tied flies. Goddard has fished for trout everywhere from the U.K. to Kenya, from New Zealand to the American West, using every variety of fly. It is a testament to his experience that just one of the more than one hundred flies he details in this omnibus has caught no fewer than fifty fish.

Goddard blends traditional natural furs and feathers with a wide variety of artificial materials like Lurex, Antron, poly yarn, Krystal Flash, and Microfibetts. No one anywhere has been more successful in extending the fly tyer's arsenal of materials, and this blending may in itself be the single most exciting development in fly tying in several decades. He details his insights on such creations as the black fly, the black gnat, the Blue-Winged Olive Dun, the copperknob, the damsel wiggle nymph, and more.

Goddard's pioneering work has profoundly affected modern fly tying, and has improved the success of thousands of fly fishers. This 144-page book, filled with anecdotes and practical fly-tying wisdom, shows why. A 32-page color section highlights the best of his work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #994613 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
JOHN GODDARD is coauthor with Brian Clarke of the groundbreaking The Trout and the Fly, and author of A Fly Fisher's Reflections, as well as countless magazine and newspaper articles. For decades, he has fished all over the world for all species of gamefish.

Customer Reviews

Trout Fly Patterns of John Goddard
John Goddard is one of the world's premier fly fishermen. His scholarship parallels his fishing skills. These are pragmatic patterns. Goddard passes on what his extensive hours on the water have helped him develop. Most of his time is on the classic British chalk streams where selective brown trout are hard to fool. Yet his patterns are not particularly complex, not difficult to tie. For those of us who do not fish frequently enough to develop our own statistically proven flies this is a wonderful source on what flies to tie and how to fish them. Good recipes with helpful accompanying text.

discovery for me
Angling seems to be one of those pursuits where one can be ignorant of entire territories of knowledge and areas of endeavor. i knew there was something called a Goddard Caddis but didn't know what it was. it turns out that for some reason i was unaware of the vast contributions of goddard (and clarke), as i was of center-pin reel float fishing, until just recently. this is work of the stature of schweibert, lafontaine, and swisher/richards in helping us to understand what fish feed on and how it actually may look to them in the water instead of how it looks to us when we have it in our hand. So, i heartily recommend it. I forgot to include the work of Ralph and Lisa Cutter and Brian Chan amongst these people who are contributing so much by taking us underwater. all these products are well worth the expense. James H Waters PhD