Colorado Trout Flies
The East Slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains is home to an extraordinary concentration of accomplished fly tyers, perhaps the greatest in the world.
Colorado Trout Flies profiles 34 of them, including pro tyers, guides, writers and others. The book focuses on the tyers and their favorite fly patterns. — In the permanent collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing.
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Book details
Colorado Trout Flies; Streamside Press. ISBN: 978-0-615-16243-0. Hardcover with laminated full-color dust jacket. Total pages: 332. Indexed. Approx. dimensions (exterior): 10.25 H x 7.25 W. Weight: approx. 2.5 pounds. More than 80 color photographs of trout flies in the book’s “Color Plates” section, plus more than 100 B&W photos, including an original portrait of each tyer. Published in 2008.
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Featured tyers
Among the featured tyers: Marty Bartholomew, Brad Befus, A.K. Best, John Betts, Jim Cannon, Rim Chung, Charlie Craven, Pat Dorsey, Ed Engle, John Gierach, Shane Stalcup, Gordon Wickstrom, Vince Wilcox and many more.
High praise for Colorado Trout Flies
Todd has written a fly-tying book like no other, destined to become a classic. And the fly patterns will fool trout anyplace. — A.K. Best
I read the sections on the tyers I know — some well, others 
more casually — and Todd invariably nailed them. You don’t just learn where they came from and how they got into fly tying, you also get a sense of their style, philosophy and humor and of their lives before or outside of fly fishing. — John Gierach
“The author lets his subjects use their own voices as they are, rather than his interpretations of what they said. It is a gift that is hard to do as well as Todd has done it here. A first-rate work.” — John Betts
“Todd’s easy, graceful prose seems to be writing itself.” — Gordon Wickstrom