Guide to Fly Tying

Dick Talleur

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9780811751377
• Year: 2000

• Step-by-step color sequences for more than 100 patterns

Acclaimed tier and master teacher Dick Talleur presents the fundamentals and key techniques for tying all the popular patterns, with step-by-step color photos and explicit text showing every nuance of the process. This book builds on Talleur's classic reference, Mastering the Art of Fly Tying, one of the first to go beyond the simple recipe-photo format to provide detailed explanations of technique. That book taught a generation of fly fishers how to tie; Guide to Fly Tying offers the same scope and approach while incorporating the latest in materials, tools, and techniques.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1: Vises, Tools, and Materials
• 2: Hooks
• 3: Thread
• 4: Flank-Feather Wings
• 5: Wulffmanship
• 6: Tippet Wings
• 7: Spinners and Spents
• 8: Down-Wing Dry Flies
• 9: Clump-Wing Dry Flies
• 10: Parachutes
• 11: Small and Smaller
• 12: Variants
• 13: Soft-Hackle Wet Flies
• 14: Winged Wet Flies
• 15: Nymphs
• 16: Stonefly Nymphs
• 17: The Hornberg
• 18: New and Novel Woolly Buggers
• 19: Unmuddling the Muddler
• 20: The Pseudo Sculpin
• 21: Marabou Streamers
• 22: The Bucktail or Hairwing Streamer
• 23: Matukas and Meatballs
• 24: Featherwing Streamers
• 25: A Very Edible Crayfish
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover
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