Fly-Tying: An Essential Guide from One of the Greatest Instructors of All Time

No book has taught - or retaught - more serious fly tiers the basic skills of fly tying than Helen Shaw's <i>Fly-Tying</i>. Shaw's simple and logical prose throughout and more than 250 life-size tying sequences make the various processes easy to understand, follow, and apply.<br><br>Readers of <i>Fly-Tying</i> will learn every skill necessary to tie flies using many different materials, including:<br><br>Thread<br>Tinsel<br>Floss<br>Wool<br>Dubbing<br>Hair<br>Quill<br>Feathers<br><br>Introductory chapters teach aspiring fly tiers about the tools of the trade, while a chapter titled &quot;The Finished Fly&quot; explains how to use what they have created. Learning the various techniques one-by-one throughout the text will help fly tiers of all backgrounds and levels of expertise to tie hundreds of different patterns.<br><br>With a new color photo insert, foreword by David Klausmeyer, and note from Nick Lyons, a whole new generation of tiers will benefit from the reintroduction of this authoritative book more than fifty years after its original publication in 1963.<br>