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

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 include: 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.Talleur, Richard W. is the author of 'Inside Fly Tying 100 Tips for Solving the Trickiest Fly-Tying Problems', published 2004 under ISBN 9780811731386 and ISBN 0811731383.