Author: Jan Adkins
Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications
Keywords: tying, line
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0937822833
ISBN-13: 9780937822838

This is a basic primer of using line, rope, twine, string and shoelaces. Think of it as an enjoyable course in making line work for you-tying up a hammock, tying down a tarpaulin, cleating down a dockline or lashing on a cartop canoe. As a gift for a line-challenged mate or a ready reference for your own bookshelf, this practical but beguiling how-to is a must-have. It is an essential introduction to the craft of cordage, illustrated in Adkins’ stylish but clear detail, written with wit and enthusiasm.

Author: Helen Shaw
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Keywords: tying
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1987-10-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0941130541
ISBN-13: 9780941130547

No book has taught - or retaught - more serious fly tyers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw’s. Its lucid prose and more than 25 life-size tying sequences make the various processes absolutely clear. There are chapters on Tools, Thread, Tinsel, Floss, Wool, Dubbing, Hairs, Quill, and Feathers; and there is an especially helpful chapter on The Finished Fly. The result of this method of treating the separate techniques necessary in fly tying is the development of skills that will enable any fly tyer to tie hundreds of different patterns. A whole new generation of tyers will be

Author: Jim Schollmeyer
Publisher: Frank Amato Publications
Keywords: techniques, tying, nymph
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2001-10
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1571882669
ISBN-13: 9781571882660

Noted photographer and author, Jim Schollmeyer, now puts his talents to tying nymphs. More than just a book of nymph patterns, this book takes a different approach. Realizing that many nymph patterns have evolved from variations on a handful of basic designs and tying techniques, Jim has written on these evolutions and how your repertoire of flies can be broadened by seeing how a variety of modifications can be worked into fly designs to produce the desired appearance or behavior. With his crisp step-by-step photos and concise text, Jim Schollmeyer has done it again, another great

Author: Maurice Beliveau
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: tying, abc
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0811726509
ISBN-13: 9780811726504

With this straightforward manual any beginner can get started fly tying. Based on the course taught by the Basil W. Woods chapter of Trout Unlimited (NH), the book covers the 21 basic skills every tier needs to learn, practice, and perfect: tying on, the whip finish, pinch tying, abrading, dubbing, working with wings and hackle, and the high tie method. After the basic techniques, the book moves on to the step-by-step instructions for tying 18 popular flies. Beliveau simplifies the often intimidating world of fly tying and gives just the right amount of detail to enable tiers to fi

Author: Ed Engle
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: flies, small, tying
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2004-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0811700828
ISBN-13: 9780811700825

Taking trout on lightweight rods with flies as small as size 20 and 30 is a challenge. Learn to imitate midges’ trailing shucks and drowned adults, tie tiny parachutes and white-winged Tricos, and create patterns that mimic micro-caddis and micro scuds. Engle covers small fly history, tying tools, and materials. Tips on fishing techniques come from Ed Engle’s 30 years of experience fishing small flies on the South Platte River. Included is information on choosing the right hook, thread, wire, and amount of weight for small flies.

Author: Dick Talleur
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: tying, guide
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2000-04
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0811709876
ISBN-13: 9780811709873

557 color photos 8 x 11 * Both a pattern and technique book-a complete course in fly tying * Step-by-step color sequences for more than 100 patterns "Guide to Fly Tying is Talleur’s best work yet for novice and journeyman tiers, and indeed one of the best books around for anyone who’d like to learn to tie flies or improve the flies he’s already tying . . . As always, his photos are among the very best in the business . . .Guide to Fly Tying is an excellent cornerstone for any fly-tying library."-Art Scheck, editor, Fly Tyer Acclaimed tier and master teacher D

Author: Tom Rosenbauer
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Keywords: guide, tying, orvis
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1592281214
ISBN-13: 9781592281213

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs.Even if you have no previous tying experience, you’ll be able to tie dries,