101 Innovative Fly-tying Tips: How to Tie Flies Quickly, Easily and Professionally - Tapa dura

Believing that simplicity is the surest route to tying a successful fly, Charles Meck offers some of his best tips from 50 years of practising the art. You won't find any woven bodies here. You won't find any complicated classic salmon patterns. What you will find are tips on making easy-to-tie, highly productive flies. Some of the techniques make tying flies faster. Some of them just make it easier and more straightforward. Some of them make patterns stronger and more durable. Meck also goes over using synthetic materials like Z-Lon, poly and Antron, as well as giving advice on using the classics. In addition to general tips, Meck shows fly fishers exactly how to tie more than 25 highly productive patterns, like the Beadhead Glo Bug, the Deer Head Caddis, and the Twisted Dun. Each pattern highlights some of Meck's new techniques. Techniques covered include: how to make a whip finish and half hitch with ease; tying legs on nymphs and emergers; how to tie terrestrial patterns for specific streams; anchoring synthetics; an easy way to prevent a wing from slipping forward; and many more. Mecks's manual should find an important place on every fly tyer's bench.

Come along with fly-tying legend Charles Meck and learn to tie flies quickly, easily, and professionally, using his time-tested techniques. Included in this book are such invaluable techniques as: How to make a whip-finish and half hitch with ease; tying legs on nymphs and emergers; how to tie terrestrial patterns for specific streams; anchoring synthetic materials to the hook; an easy way to prevent a wing from slipping forward; the best way to tie a Buskin Crayfish; fishing tips for all patterns and water types and much more.You'll also learn how to tie emergers, nymphs, wet flies, terrestrials, conventional dry flies, spentwings, down-wings, parachutes, streamers, bucktails, and Stimulator-type patterns. All told, Meck gives you detailed instructions for tying more than forty-one highly productive patterns. (6 x 9 1/4, 208 pages, color photos, diagrams, charts)Charles R. Meck has fly-fished for more than fifty years. He has written nine books on the subject, including Meeting and Fishing the Hatches and Pennsylvania Trout Streams and Their Hatches. He has taught fly tying and fishing in Canada, New Zealand, and more than twenty states, and has written more than five hundred magazine and newspaper articles on fly fishing. Previously the regional director for continuing education at Penn State University, he divides his time between homes in State College, Pennsylvania and Mesa, Arizona.