Book Review - Salmon Flies

Salmon flies - Their Character, Style and Dressing




To review this book is like kicking in an open door - a door, which was opened a few decades ago. So many people have praised it before me, and its influence has been so phenomenal that anything but a Global Class score would make little sense.

The impact of Poul Jorgensen contemporary salmon fly tying – or rather contemporary salmon fly tiers - is massive. His book brought the craftsmanship and art of these gaudy yet practical and beautiful full dressed salmon flies to the attention of a whole generation of new tiers.

In 1978 when this book first came out I was in the transition between college and university and had barely started my “career” in fly-fishing and fly tying.
But I met Poul Jorgensen.

Since he was born in Denmark he regularly returned to visit friends and family. During his stays he would often teach classes or perform tying demonstrations, and I had the good fortune of seeing him on several such occasions.