Tying and Fishing Bucktails and Other Hair Wings

Atlantic Salmon Flies to Steelhead Flies

Mike Valla

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9780811765329
• Year: 2016

The classic bucktails--Mickey Finn, Black Nose Dace--are some of the very first flies that anglers learn to tie, and they are the most well-traveled of all streamer types, from Maine to Washington, trout to salmon. With over 500 patterns, this is the only book to date written on bucktails as well as other hairwing streamers.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I: Tying and Fishing Bucktails
• Chapter 1: Development and History of Bucktails
• Chapter 2: Fishing Bucktails in Streams, Ponds, and Lakes
• Chapter 3: Fly-tying Materials
• Chapter 4: Heads and Eyes
• Chapter 5: Tying the Little Brown Trout
• Chapter 6: Tying the Poison
• Chapter 7: Tying the Strawberry Blonde
• Chapter 8: Tying the Mickey Finn
• Chapter 9: Tying the Frank Cooper
• Chapter 10: Tying the Southern Redbelly Dace
• Chapter 11: Tying the Red Shiner
• Chapter 12: Tying the Red and White Bucktail
• Chapter 13: Tying the Black-Nose Dace
• Chapter 14: Tying the Pink Pup
• Chapter 15: Tying the Bornholdt Golden Squirrel
• Chapter 16: Tying the Schmidtmann-Valla Smelt
• Chapter 17: Tying the MV Emerald Shiner
• Chapter 18: Tying the Crazy Charlie (aka Nasty Charlie)
• Chapter 19: Tying the MV Cossayuna Fathead Minnow
• Chapter 20: Tying the MV Black Goat
• Chapter 21: Tying the MV Rusty Llama
• Chapter 22: Tying the Red Optic
• Chapter 23: Tying the MV Golden Shiner
• Chapter 24: Tying the MV Yellow Spotted Salamander
• Chapter 25: Catalog of Bucktails
• Section II: Tying Atlantic Salmon and Steelhead Hair Wings
• Chapter 26: Atlantic Salmon Fly Hair Wings
• Chapter 27: Steelhead Hair Wings
• Chapter 28: Catalog of Atlantic Salmon Hair Wings and Steelhead Hair Wings
• Chapter 29: New Approaches to Baitfish Hair-Wing Pattern Designs
• Bibliography