Inside Fly Tying is filled with a master fly tier's tips for solving common problems and simplifying tying methods. Includes new patterns and materials and innovative ways of tying classic flies. Tips include: Finding quality hackle and tying hackle-quill bodies--Dyeing and stripping peacock quills for bodies--Dubbing and winging a Wulff-style dry fly--Tying wood duck wings, single-feather parachutes, and foam-post parachutes--Using hen and rooster capes and mallard flank feathers for streamers--New alternative materials for Spey flies, Muddlers, Bombers, and stonefly nymphs--Tying a spinner with an egg sac--A hackling method for the Hewitt Skater--The advantages of tying with Coq de Leon and Brahma feathers
Provides a variety of patterns, gives instructions for different fly tying techniques to enable one to tie old Ray Bergman brook-trout flies, flies with foam, flies for Alaska, and suggests proper tools and equipment.
Step-by-step color sequences for more than 100 patterns Acclaimed tier and master teacher Dick Talleur presents the fundamentals and key techniques for tying all the popular patterns, with step-by-step color photos and explicit text showing every nuance of the process. This book builds on Talleur's classic reference, Mastering the Art of Fly Tying, one of the first to go beyond the simple recipe-photo format to provide detailed explanations of technique. That book taught a generation of fly fishers how to tie; Guide to Fly Tying offers the same scope and approach while incorporating the latest in materials, tools, and techniques.
Inside Fly Tying is filled with a master fly tier's tips for solving common problems and simplifying tying methods. Includes new patterns and materials and innovative ways of tying classic flies. Tips include: Finding quality hackle and tying hackle-quill bodies--Dyeing and stripping peacock quills for bodies--Dubbing and winging a Wulff-style dry fly--Tying wood duck wings, single-feather parachutes, and foam-post parachutes--Using hen and rooster capes and mallard flank feathers for streamers--New alternative materials for Spey flies, Muddlers, Bombers, and stonefly nymphs--Tying a spinner with an egg sac--A hackling method for the Hewitt Skater--The advantages of tying with Coq de Leon and Brahma feathers
Chasing the lightning-fast bonefish across the south Pacific, Florida, and the Caribbean is for many anglers a near obsession, and this is the handbook to such fly-fishing adventure. Author Dick Brown, a widely experienced bonefisher and fly tyer who writes for several angling journals, offers keen advice for successful bonefishing – both his insights and those of other experts such as Lefty Kreh, Ben Estes, and Stu Apte. Brown and his cohorts help the reader spot, stalk, cast to and strike this most wily, challenging quarry. He also analyzes the use of numerous flies, telling which patterns work best and when, and details superb bonefishing destinations with fully up-to-date information.
This edition of Bonefish Fly Patterns is the most comprehensive collection of bonefish flies ever published, displaying fly designs from such world-class flats anglers and guides as Winston Moore, Jim Orthwein (four-time bonefish world record holder), Steve Huff, Harry Spear, Rick Ruoff, Del Brown, John Goddard, Barry and Cathy Beck, Lou Tabory, Tim Borski, Bob Clouser, Lefty Kreh, Tom McGuane, Yvon Chouinard, Craig Mathews, Vic Gaspeny, Dave Skok, Eric Peterson, Patrick Dorsey, Aaron Adams, and many, many more. The book includes 197 full-color photographs—one for each featured pattern, some published here for the first time. Each fly profile is listed with its creator's authentic recipe and tying tips. Also included are tying sequences for important patterns, a discussion of design trends, a materials glossary, and a list of sources for materials, custom flies, and off-the-shelf patterns. Additionally, Dick Brown describes fly selection for various destinations, habitats, and conditions, and advises anglers on how to present flies and what prey they portray.
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