TROUT FLIES: The Tier's Reference

By Dave Hughes

Description: *1,445 color photos * 8 x 11 * Step-by-step tying instructions for 500 trout flies * Sequential color photos of each step * Chapters on tying techniques, tools, and materials "If I can't have Dave Hughes at my shoulder while I"m tying (or while I"m fishing, for there"s valuable onstream advice here, too), I"ll take a copy of "Trout Flies" and be a better tier and angler." --Jim Butler, editor, Fly Rod & Reel This work is destined to become the trout fisher"s standard tying reference. It"s about tying flies to catch fish and is infused with Dave Hughes"s vast experience, skill, and common sense. Part One begins with his unusually lucid approach to tying that emphasizes the need for both searching and imitative flies, and moves on to chapters on basic tools and techniques. Parts Two and Three illustrate, with crisp color photos and explicit captions, the wide range of flies Hughes has tested all over the country and around the world. Fishing and historical notes are interspersed throughout, and dozens of useful variations to main patterns are listed. Dave Hughes is among the most widely published and respected authors in fly fishing. He is the recipient of the Federation of Fly Fishers"s coveted Lew Jewett Memorial Life Membership Award and author of several titles for Stackpole, including Wet Flies, Fly Fishing Basics, Tactics for Trout, Handbook of Hatches, Reading the Water, Strategies for Stillwater, Tackle and Technique for Taking Trout and Big Indian Creek. He also contributes regularly to fly fishing magazines. He lives in Portland, Oregon. If you travel at all, strive for fly boxes that will work wherever trout are found: in Great Britain or on the Continent; in Canada or our own East, Midwest, or West; in Chile or Argentina: in New Zealand. Trout in all those places feed on mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, midges, terrestrials, and a limited set of other things, because water everywhere contains the same kind of creatures. Nature repeats the same set of themes. If your fly boxes capture and repeat those themes, you"ll be able to con trout on any continent, including those that swim in your home waters"---from chapter one of Trout Flies.
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