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It's tough to say that a flyfishing book at $75 is a "value," but Trout Flies may be an exception. Featuring over 1400 color photographs of fly patterns, this work should be a standard for those specializing in trout flies. Author of the well-regarded Wet Flies (LJ 2/15/95), Hughes has a style that is easygoing and conversational, and his patterns will leave the beginning or intermediate enthusiast with a good selection of flies that will be effective in most situations. This is a refreshing change from earlier flytying manuals, which often were dry and dogmatic. The entry for each pattern first provides a brief anecdote that summarizes the author's opinion of the fly and its uses, next provides the recipe and tying instructions, and finally gives some variations allowing several different flies to be tied while only one pattern is learned. Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer (whose photographic talents Hughes acknowledges in his introduction) have a competing manual being published (The FlyTyer's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles, Frank Amato, 1998), and libraries may want to consider purchasing both works. Trout Flies is highly recommended for all flyfishing collections.?Jeff Grossman, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Lib., WI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The definitive trout fisherman's standard reference for tying flies to catch fish, this book features 1,445 color photos and explicit captions that draw upon the author's vast and varied experience.
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It's tough to say that a flyfishing book at $75 is a "value," but Trout Flies may be an exception. Featuring over 1400 color photographs of fly patterns, this work should be a standard for those specializing in trout flies. Author of the well-regarded Wet Flies (LJ 2/15/95), Hughes has a style that is easygoing and conversational, and his patterns will leave the beginning or intermediate enthusiast with a good selection of flies that will be effective in most situations. This is a refreshing change from earlier flytying manuals, which often were dry and dogmatic. The entry for each pattern first provides a brief anecdote that summarizes the author's opinion of the fly and its uses, next provides the recipe and tying instructions, and finally gives some variations allowing several different flies to be tied while only one pattern is learned. Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer (whose photographic talents Hughes acknowledges in his introduction) have a competing manual being published (The FlyTyer's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles, Frank Amato, 1998), and libraries may want to consider purchasing both works. Trout Flies is highly recommended for all flyfishing collections.?Jeff Grossman, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Lib., WI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The definitive trout fisherman's standard reference for tying flies to catch fish, this book features 1,445 color photos and explicit captions that draw upon the author's vast and varied experience.
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That the trout flies in this book are tied to catch trout, not to place on display for awed trout fishermen, sets our thinking off in a certain set of directions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neat thread head, layer the shank with thread, clip the excess butts, herl rope, two times the hook gap, curved caddis, clip the excess hackle tip, half times the hook gap, couple soft loops, webby fibers, fuzz from the butts, hackle counterclockwise, hopper dressing, layer with thread, single soft loop, short fibers from the butts, take thread wraps, ribbing wire, clip the excess tip, two hook gaps, hook eye lengths, smaller stonefly groups, two soft loops, shellback butts, two whip finishes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hook Standard, Thread Black, Thread Brown, Thread Olive, Krystal Flash, Body Olive, Thread Tan, Rib Fine, Thread Gray, Body Black, Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff, Beetle Bug, Woolly Bugger, Body Brown, Body Muskrat, Wing Natural, Wings White, Thread Yellow, Body Tan, Body Yellow, Wingpost White, Hare's Ear Plus, Tail Black, Wing Light New!
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That the trout flies in this book are tied to catch trout, not to place on display for awed trout fishermen, sets our thinking off in a certain set of directions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neat thread head, layer the shank with thread, clip the excess butts, herl rope, two times the hook gap, curved caddis, clip the excess hackle tip, half times the hook gap, couple soft loops, webby fibers, fuzz from the butts, hackle counterclockwise, hopper dressing, layer with thread, single soft loop, short fibers from the butts, take thread wraps, ribbing wire, clip the excess tip, two hook gaps, hook eye lengths, smaller stonefly groups, two soft loops, shellback butts, two whip finishes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hook Standard, Thread Black, Thread Brown, Thread Olive, Krystal Flash, Body Olive, Thread Tan, Rib Fine, Thread Gray, Body Black, Elk Hair Caddis, Royal Wulff, Beetle Bug, Woolly Bugger, Body Brown, Body Muskrat, Wing Natural, Wings White, Thread Yellow, Body Tan, Body Yellow, Wingpost White, Hare's Ear Plus, Tail Black, Wing Light New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Tying Foam Flies by Skip Morris on page 430, page 452, and Back Matter
- Trout Bum by John Gierach on page 20, page 223, and Back Matter
- Selective Trout: Revised and Expanded by Carl Richards on page 4, page 219, and Back Matter
- Fishing the Dry Fly As a Living Insect by Leonard M. Wright on page 326, and Back Matter
- A Modern Dry-Fly Code by Vincent C. Marinaro on page 445, and Back Matter
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