With an artist's deft touch, Fishy Fullum presents 27 original, innovative, and effective fly patterns. Each fly was designed to be tier friendly, using a few readily available materials and taking less time and skill to tie than more elaborate ties. Materials lists, step-by-step tying instructions, and introductions describing the fly give all the necessary help for tying these simple yet unusual flies.
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Jay "Fishy" Fullum retired from the newspaper business--writing the outdoor columns for the Troy Record and Albany Times Union--and has since been writing, drawing, and photographing articles in "American Angler" and "Fly Tyer" magazines. He gives fly-tying demonstrations in classes and seminars and is a featured tier and lecturer at the International Fly Tying Symposium in Somerset, New Jersey.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing's fishy about this book,
By Kent Lufkin (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fishy's Flies (Paperback)
Fishy's patterns are a marvel of creativity and resourceful design. His recipe for making hopper wings from interface material treated with model airplane dope is pure elegance, as is his tip for using a large sewing needle to thread rubber legs through foam bodies. The book is well-written, with concise, step-by-step pattern recipes spiced with fishing anecdotes drawn from decades of experience. The tying instructions and hand-drawn illustrations are well done. although I feel the book suffers a bit from a lack of photos of the finished flies.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An entertaining and useful book,
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Fishy's Flies is a book that I have read and used many times over to create flies that are both simple and very effective. Jay Fullum has placed many of his creations in an easy to read and use format that is entertaining and very well illustrated. Step by step instructions for flies from Panfish to Saltwater. I would recommend this book to any fly tier.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Instruction on fly making.,
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This is a companion book to one other by Jay Fullum and my grandson and I enjoyed both books equally well. My granson has made some of Jays creations and they respond well in use on the water.
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As a fly increases in size, more emphasis should be placed on its overall appearance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brown deer tail, drying wheel, little superglue, popper body, arctic fox tail, reattach the thread, flat waxed nylon, mylar piping, tie off the thread, hook shank, advance the thread, dubbing fur, little epoxy, streamer hook, soft wraps, oval tinsel, foam body, wing pad, wing material, head cement, plastic canvas, minute epoxy, waterproof markers, bead chain, fingernail polish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Krystal Flash, Materials List, Bug Skin, Faux Fur, Pencil Sharpener Popper, Stone Caddis, Foam-Backed Humpy, Lipped Popper, Piping Squid, Shape Sparkle Body, Zara Spook, Baby Crayfish, Fishy's Foam Hopper New!
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As a fly increases in size, more emphasis should be placed on its overall appearance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brown deer tail, drying wheel, little superglue, popper body, arctic fox tail, reattach the thread, flat waxed nylon, mylar piping, tie off the thread, hook shank, advance the thread, dubbing fur, little epoxy, streamer hook, soft wraps, oval tinsel, foam body, wing pad, wing material, head cement, plastic canvas, minute epoxy, waterproof markers, bead chain, fingernail polish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Krystal Flash, Materials List, Bug Skin, Faux Fur, Pencil Sharpener Popper, Stone Caddis, Foam-Backed Humpy, Lipped Popper, Piping Squid, Shape Sparkle Body, Zara Spook, Baby Crayfish, Fishy's Foam Hopper New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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