Beginner's Guide to Flytying: Step-By-Step Instructioins for Twelve Popular and Versatile Fly Patterns [Hardcover]

Chris Mann (Author), Terry Griffiths (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

"This book uses the latest techniques in computer-generated drawings to show the reader exactly how to create an artificial fly, step-by-step. Clearer than photography, more life-like than drawings, the graphic instructions show, by subtle emphasis and exaggeration, precisely what to do. Included are all the basic techniques for applying thread, feather and fur to the hook, and more sophisticated methods such as parachute hackling, using the dubbing loop and hairwinging. 12 key trout patterns demonstrate the most important flytying techniques. * Black Ghost (ribbing & hairwing) * Woolly Bugger (palmered hackle dressing) * Duck's Dun (cul de canard dressing) * Gray Wulff (bucktail dry fly technique) * Elk Hair Caddis (dubbing & hairwing) * Parachute Emerger (parachute dressing) * Ginger Quill (wet fly wings and throat hackle) * Black Pennell (wet hackling) * Goldhead Hare's Ear (weighted goldhead & natural dubbing) * Montana Nymph (nymph hackling, marabou tails) * Pheasant Tail Nymph (pheasant tail fibers & copper wire) * Shrimp/Scud (wire weighting & synthentic dubbing)"

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

"Chris Mann had a peripatetic upbringing in which his parents moved constantly and he attended ten different schools. He learned to fish on the gravel pit ponds of Essex, and on moving to live in Scotland at the age of twelve, he discovered the joys of flyfishing. He trained as a graphic designer, before specialising in computer software development in Germany. After many years working all over Western Europe, he moved back to England where he now combines his graphic design commissions with website design and writing books on flytying." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 76 pages
• Publisher: Frank Amato Publications (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571881840
• ISBN-13: 978-1571881847
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,891,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very highly recommended for novice fly fishers, October 8, 2002

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This review is from: Beginner's Guide to Flytying: Step-By-Step Instructioins for Twelve Popular and Versatile Fly Patterns (Hardcover)

Collaboratively created by professional graphic designer, flyfisherman and flytyer Chris Mann and Terry Griffiths (editor of "The Flydresser" magazine), Beginner's Guide To Flytying offers easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for twelve versatile and popular fly patterns. Enhanced throughout with full color illustrations (many of which were created with the enhanced graphics of computer-generated drawings), Beginner's Guide To Flytying offers both extensive basic instruction and very specific advice each of its twelve fly patterns, from Black Pennell to Duck's Dun. Beginner's Guide To Flytying is an especially excellent and "user friendly" introduction to the art and craft of flytying, and very highly recommended for novice fly fishers.