A collection of bonefish flies showing the best fly designs from world-class flats anglers and guides.
Dick Brown has stalked bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook, and other tropical saltwater species for over 30 years and he's fished extensively for bones in the Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Pacific, Venezuela, and Florida Keys. He is one the foremost authorities on bonefish and author of Fly Fishing for Bonefish and Bonefish Fly Patterns considered by many to be the bibles on this great game fish. A new and revised edition of Fly Fishing for Bonefish from Lyons Press features the latest discoveries in bonefish behavior and prey preferences as well as new angling techniques, strategy, equipment, and dozens of new flies. He is currently working on a new edition of Bonefish Fly Patterns due in 2011. To learn more, visit his website at www.dickbrownbonefishing.com.
Dick is an innovative fly designer, tyer, and authority on bonefish patterns. He has created several signature flats flies including the Beady Crab, the Hare Trigger, the Strip Tease, the Phantom Crab, and the Slinky Toad.
Dick has contributed to a number of other angling books, including Bob Veverka's Innovative Saltwater Flies, Mitchell Beasley's The Complete Book of Fly-Fishing, Alan Robinson's Saltwater Grand Slam, Salt Water Sportsman's Saltwater Fishing Tactics, and Bill Cummings' Atlantic Salmon Fishing. He has also written for Salt Water Sportsman, American Angler, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters, Fly Fisherman, Saltwater Fly Fishing, the Atlantic Salmon Journal, and The Yale Angler's Journal.
In addition, Dick has fished for Atlantic salmon in Canada's maritime provinces and for trout and steelhead in the American West and Northwest. He lives on the north shore of Massachusetts where he and his wife, Carol Wright, pursue striped bass, bluefish, and other inshore species, when they're not exploring bonefish and permit flats to the south or the salmon rivers of Canada.
Dick is an executive board member of the New England Saltwater Fly Rodders and a member of the International Game Fish Association, United Fly Tyers, Trout Unlimited, and Stripers Forever. He has also served on the Board of Directors of New England Fly Tyers. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a joint B.A. in English and history, and he is a graduate of Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business Executive Program. He spent much of his business career in the computer industry, running worldwide marketing and communications for a Fortune 500 computer firm and as CEO and founder of Brown Wright & Company--a high tech marketing company.
