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Fly Tying Books
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The Fly Tier's
Benchside Reference
by Ted Leeson, Jim Schollmeyer
Printed in full color this book features over
3,000 color photographs and over 400,000 words describing and
showing, step-by-step, hundreds of fly-tying techniques! Leeson
and Schollmeyer have collaborated to produce this masterful volume
which will be the standard fly-tying reference book for the entire
trout-fishing world. Through enormous effort on their part they
bring to all who love flies and fly fishing a wonderful compendium
of fly-tying knowledge. Every fly tier should have this book in
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Trout Flies,
Proven Patterns
by Gary LaFontaine, Powell Swanser
(Illustrator)
In Trout Flies: Proven Patterns,
LaFontaine combines observation with a deep understanding of
entomology to examine the art of fly tying. This large, attractive
volume boasts color plates, step-by-step diagrams, and the
author's lively discussion of patterns that work--and why they
succeed. Twenty years of research and development are reflected in
these pages, with many proven variations on dries, emergers,
nymphs, wets, and streamers. Excerpts from the author's own
fishing logs, describing experiments with his patterns, lend a
personal touch to his fine instruction. |
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A.K.'s Fly Box
by A.K. Best; intro by John Gierach
Well-known to readers of John Gierach as that
author's occasional sidekick on western trout streams, A.K. Best
wades into the deep waters of the angling library himself with an
authoritative and instructional look at fly-tying. Best details
the tying methods for his own popular creations as well as old
standards, with plenty of photos of both naturals and their
imitations. Also inlcuded is an introduction by Gierach. |
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The Art of Fly
Tying
by John Van Vliet
This is the
best selling fly-tying book of all time.
First released in 1994, this title comes in two
versions: the fly-shop favorite, 8 1/2 x 11" hardcover
concealed wire-o binding (this allows the book to lay flat
so that the tier's hands are free) or the new version on CD.
Filled with hundreds of beautifully-detailed four color
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Good Flies :
Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way
by John Gierach
Good Flies finds Gierach behind the
fly-tying vise, sorting through his neck feathers and homemade
bodkins in an effort to make sense of his own fly-tying tendencies
within the larger, centuries-old tradition. "Tying our own
flies is where many of us go off the deep end in fly
fishing," he admits in the introduction as a caveat emptor.
Non-tiers might lose interest in the subsequent chapters of
seeming arcana covering everything from the pros of spade hackle
(essential for dry-fly tails) to the cons of beadheads (they're
ugly). |
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