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Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying: A Lesson by Lesson Approach

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As the title implies, this book covers a step by step basic approach to fly tying. After having read and tried, more than a dozen entry level books on this subject, all I can say is buy this book!
The authors take you step by step through each process, accumulating in a finished fly. They are meticulous in each step, repeating the last steps, while moving on to the next.
They also heed a valuable warning after each step, practice!
This book will not make you an instant fly tyer, nor is it meant to. It is designed to bring you along slowly, and methodically.
By far the best I have seen on the subject.

Collaboratively written by fly-fishing experts Brad Befus and John Berryman, Basic Techniques For Successful Fly Tying: A Lesson By Lesson Approach is a meticulous, step-by-step, "user friendly" guide which is wonderfully illustrated with numerous, full-color, instructional photographs. Specifically divided into lesson plans that cover everything from different types of fly wings to dry flies to selecting the right materials and hackle, Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying is an excellent and enthusiastically recommended training guide for fly fishers from novice through intermediate skill levels.

Whether you're taking tying lessons or venturing out on your own this is the book to have. It only "teaches" a few flies, but it does cover ( and very well, too) all the techniques you'll use on most recipes you may want to tie. Learn just about everything you need to know for dries, nymphs, wets and streamers. This book has a very good section on tying all the different types of wings you'll ever want to tie. It also has a fairly in depth review of the sometimes bewildering array of materials. An informative book and alot of fun working through the lessons.