Inside Fly Tying: 100 Tips for Solving the Trickiest Fly-Tying Problems

by Dick Talleur

Inside Fly Tying is filled with a master fly tier's tips for solving common problems and simplifying tying methods. Includes new patterns and materials and innovative ways of tying classic flies.Tips Finding quality hackle and tying hackle-quill bodies--Dyeing and stripping peacock quills for bodies--Dubbing and winging a Wulff-style dry fly--Tying wood duck wings, single-feather parachutes, and foam-post parachutes--Using hen and rooster capes and mallard flank feathers for streamers--New alternative materials for Spey flies, Muddlers, Bombers, and stonefly nymphs--Tying a spinner with an egg sac--A hackling method for the Hewitt Skater--The advantages of tying with Coq de Leon and Brahma feathers

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2004