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Top 12 Dry Flies for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish them
Like its companion volume, Top 12 Nymphs for Trout How, When, and Where to Fish Them, 2nd Edition, this little book puts a guiding hand on your shoulder and introduces you to a team of popular, versatile, deadly fly patterns. This book, Top 12 Dry Flies for Trout How, When, and Where to Fish Them, teaches you—
step by clear step, through words and photos and illustrations—how to fish each of its dozen varied floating flies for trout in creeks and rivers. The team of flies in Top 12 Dry Flies is made up of absolutely proven trout-catchers (the Royal Wulff, the Griffith’s Gnat, the Parachute Adams…), flies that should be easy to collect. And you get alternate flies in case you can’t find one on the list. The flies run dark to light, somber to bright, tiny to big, high floating to floating halfway submerged.
You also get all the information you need so you can tie the flies yourself, if you prefer, rather than buy them. Still, this is not a fly-tying book—it's a book about how to select dry flies and how to fish them effectively. A book for the beginner, yes, but with lots for the experienced fly fisher too.
The author of 19 ink-and-paper books on fly-fishing and fly-tying topics, books published with Stackpole Books, Nick Lyons Books, and Amato Media, Skip Morris will teach you what you really need to know. He'll teach you how to select an effective floating fly and fish it so that it convinces cagey trout; teach you about the insects that emerge from the water in mobs to turn trout into greedy but fussy feeders, and tell you which of your flies imitates each of those insects; teach you how to make up effective rigs of two flies; teaches you casts that let your 12 floating flies drift naturally, on complex river currents, like the insects they imitate; teach you how to assess what’s going on on the river—what the trout and the bugs are doing—then help you select a winning fly and strategy; and teach you a lot more besides.
Top 12 Dry Flies is heavy with pro-photographer/painter Carol Ann Morris's straightforward instructive illustrations and color 15 illustrations, 47 photos. And another 10 elegant photographs and paintings just to please your eyes.
At about 50,000 words of clear instruction along with all those images, this little book will set you up with the right flies and get you out catching trout on them in your creeks and rivers. And will entertain you in the process.
step by clear step, through words and photos and illustrations—how to fish each of its dozen varied floating flies for trout in creeks and rivers. The team of flies in Top 12 Dry Flies is made up of absolutely proven trout-catchers (the Royal Wulff, the Griffith’s Gnat, the Parachute Adams…), flies that should be easy to collect. And you get alternate flies in case you can’t find one on the list. The flies run dark to light, somber to bright, tiny to big, high floating to floating halfway submerged.
You also get all the information you need so you can tie the flies yourself, if you prefer, rather than buy them. Still, this is not a fly-tying book—it's a book about how to select dry flies and how to fish them effectively. A book for the beginner, yes, but with lots for the experienced fly fisher too.
The author of 19 ink-and-paper books on fly-fishing and fly-tying topics, books published with Stackpole Books, Nick Lyons Books, and Amato Media, Skip Morris will teach you what you really need to know. He'll teach you how to select an effective floating fly and fish it so that it convinces cagey trout; teach you about the insects that emerge from the water in mobs to turn trout into greedy but fussy feeders, and tell you which of your flies imitates each of those insects; teach you how to make up effective rigs of two flies; teaches you casts that let your 12 floating flies drift naturally, on complex river currents, like the insects they imitate; teach you how to assess what’s going on on the river—what the trout and the bugs are doing—then help you select a winning fly and strategy; and teach you a lot more besides.
Top 12 Dry Flies is heavy with pro-photographer/painter Carol Ann Morris's straightforward instructive illustrations and color 15 illustrations, 47 photos. And another 10 elegant photographs and paintings just to please your eyes.
At about 50,000 words of clear instruction along with all those images, this little book will set you up with the right flies and get you out catching trout on them in your creeks and rivers. And will entertain you in the process.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 24, 2023
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