Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die Hardcover – Illustrated, June 1, 2004

This really showed me the differences of places in the world that fly fishing is popular at.

Beautiful photos, beckoning dialogue. Was a treasured gift.

This is a beautiful book, one that is smartly designed and packaged, pleasant to leaf through and to handle, but somewhat lacking in substance.Here's an example of the kind of lapse that would have been caught had the book been written for hard core fisherpeople. We read, "The South Island of New Zealand is awash with beauty and teeming with trout". And then a few sentences later, "The South Island trouting experience is certainly one of quality rather than quantity. A majority of the rivers simply don't support large numbers of fish. Some of the most fishy-looking water you can imagine may not contain a single fish".So is the South Island "teeming with trout" or is it not?Ultimately it doesn't really matter. This isn't a book about information - it's a wonderful collection of vicarious fishing trips. I'd never flicked a fly rod when I got it, yet I was engrossed, transported, and in the end captivated.The settings range from intimate, "Brown Trout on Letort Spring Run", to grand, "Steelhead on the Dean River". Along the way we encounter tarpon, bonefish, snook, pike, redfish, all manner of salmon and trout, and even something known as a giant trevally that lurks in the waters off Christmas Island.And the photographs are stunning. I only wish there were one for every destination.Recommended to wile away a winter's afternoon while waiting for the ice to break.

I bought this book for my husband, who is an avid fly fisherman. This book is beautiful! I am a graphic Designer, so the layout of a publication is important to me, and this book is very nice. I would have gave this a 5 star for sure, the only reason I didn't is because on arrival the "Book Jacket Cover" was torn on the back. My husband probably will not notice this, but to me it's a big deal. Sorry, I'm so picky.

Well done book.

Bought for a gift, he'll love it. note: author also tells cost of these trips-good info to have

nice book, but i would like to see more pictures of the different species!! also some maps to locate some places would be great...I live in argentina and the 3 places chosen are great, although you must be a millionaire to fish rio grande!! Fortunately we still have a lot of places here to fish for free.I would rather see a book where they tell where to fish and spent little money (as an example the book tells you that i f you want to fish rio traful, the only way to do it is going to arroyo verde lodge and thats no true!! you can do it for free if you want..there are accesses by foot or you can reach it by the lake, an there are other private places much more cheaper, but why they dont describe that??). Do not tell me where i can go spending $ 5000 a week because its obvious i could go everywhere with that money!!!!

My boyfriend is huge into fly fishing. I bought him this book for his birthday and he was so pleased. He did say he tried fishing one of the places reccommended in Pennsylvania and it was a let down. But all in all, he loves it, loves the recommendations and knowing what places he wants to add to his bucket list.

A decent enough book, but 1 star deducted for being overly populated with USA waters, and another star deducted for the poor UK entries, 3 in total. In Scotland we have salmon fishing on the Dee and Tay, fine, then down south we have the river Test chalk stream, i can let that go, but the 3rd entry, Blagdon Lake, throws the whole book into question for me. I dont mind dam fishing for stockies, not at all, but including this in the 50 best places to fish in the world is a bit of a joke, for me it taints the book.

Bought this as a nice little present and loved they way it looked when it arrived. Also had a little browse through it and the pictures all looked amazing and it seems very informative. My boyfriend - who I bought it for, was over the moon and loves it!

Sons Christmas present he is not a big fan of books but loved the pictures in this one photography is lovely

Given as a gift and seemed to go down well.

Excellent service, Good item at a reasonable price, very quickly delivered