Tying Classic Wet Flies by Don Bastian

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Product Features

• eight flies demonstrated
• Gray-Hackle Peacock, Cahill, Yellow Sally, Rich Widow
• Cupsuptic, Trout Fin, Parmachene Belle, Professor
• This video is approximately 1 hour 52 minutes in length
• Copyright 2004

Product Description

In Tying Classic Wet Flies Don Bastian explain that traditional wet flies ruled they waters for most of fly fishing history but these effective patterns have been over-looked by a generation of fly tiers and anglers. This DVD is the first devoted exclusively to these patterns and tying techniques. Don Bastion demostrates detailed methods for tying quill flank married and mixed wing wet flies with a variety of body materials. In addition you will learn many useful material techniques that can be used on other modern flies.

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• ASIN: B0007CNEU4
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Wet Flies, February 1, 2008

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Robert Dietz (Woodbine, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tying Classic Wet Flies by Don Bastian (Misc.)

This is probably the best tying video I've ever seen. It's certainly the only one that I watched repeatedly. Even if you never intend to this style of fly, there's a lot of technique that's good to know for other styles. He explains every step along the way, and makes no assumption about what you may or may not already know. He's an awesome tyer, to boot.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Technique Video, October 17, 2011

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Tom - Classic Fly Tier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tying Classic Wet Flies by Don Bastian (Misc.)

Don demonstrates very solid technques that are easy to follow, understand, and learn. He does assume that the tier knows somethings about clasic wet flies. He does not discuss size of hackle feathers or selecting hackle. He discusses number of raps required for material, but does not explain if overlapping or touching turns... thus the distance covered by the material is unknown. Specifically, when making the tag of the fly.

The video close ups could be of better quality, and who ever is controlling the microphone sometimes creates noise or static.

It is however the best product out there for instuction of tying classic wet flies and I will be purchasing his second video after I complete tying several of the flies in the video.

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as fly tying instruction gets, August 27, 2006

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John McCoy "30-year veteran fly tier" (Barboursville, WV, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tying Classic Wet Flies by Don Bastian (Misc.)

I've owned Don Bastian's DVD for nearly a year now, and I've also had the privilege of attending one of his weekend-long fly tying seminars. I can honestly say that I learned almost as much from the DVD as I did from an entire weekend of sitting and tying flies with him -- there's THAT much good material in the DVD!