Fly Tying Books
The fly tying books I like are: The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference (Hardcover), by Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer, 1998
A MUST! It's a totally different flytying book in the sense that it is not a how-to make a fly pattern from start to finish, but a reference for techniques, materials and tools. For instance, it can show you how to WEAVE a fly. Other fly tying books I like are the following two:  "Flytying Techniques: a full colour guide" by Jacqueline Wakeford, 1981
I like the "old style", no-rush, quiet, careful writing. Mrs Wakefield goes to the essential of the art of - professional! -fly-tying, since the very beginning: understanding a hooks's parts, how to discard badly shaped hooks and how to hold it in the vise properly. Great book! A newer version is also available:
Essential Trout Flies 5 Stars ratings at Amazons and great reviews. I would even recommend it as first to buy in a fly tying books collection since it explain also materials and tools.
Finally is a special book: Tying Nymphs, by Randall Kaufmann, 2003 (3rd edition)
I like fishing with nymphs. 90% of a trout food is underwater and nymphs imitate that food. The author is an established flytier and you can notice it in every page you read. Beautiful and clear pictures as well.
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by Peter Gathercole, 2003. An excellent, superbly illustrated reference book, 5 stars rating at Amazon. It covers basic techniques, tools, Materials. There are 5 main chapters and each one deals with a main fly type for a total of 100 flies - all with excellent pictures -: dry flies, nymphs and bugs, wet flies, streamers pand hairwings and to round the book off three short final chapters on fish identifying (excellent idea!), a glossary and finally a list of (North America, UK, Australlian and New Zealand) suppliers. 
is a book that I liked because I finally got the idea of learning a few fly tying patterns to make lots of variations. Here Dave Hughes brillantly explain "31 indispensable pattern styles and their most useful variations" for fly fishing rainbow trout anywhere in the world. There are very good illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating two fly boxes (one for dry flies , and one for nymphs, wet flies and streamers). Useful variations are indicated. The book has even "fishing notes" on how to use the flies!
