Veniard, John/ Downs, Donald.

Fly-tying Problems and their answers.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1977. 21cm x 14.1cm. 124 pages. With colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following chapters: Wings and Winging/ Winding Hackles and the Whip Finish/ Doubling Hackles and False Hackles/ Stiffeneing Dry-Fly Hackles and Hackling Dapping Flies/ Making Flies with Parachute Hackles/ Strippnig Peacock Herls for Quill Bodies/ Rare Hackles: Supply, Demand and Substitutes/ Making ‘Shaving Brush’ Flies/ Making’ Dubbing’ Bodies/ Making Tandem Hook Mounts for Lures, etc./ Making Hair Bodies and Head of ‘Muddler Minnow’/ Making Detached Bodies/ Hooks- Terminology/ Tying Silks: Colours to Use/ Fly-Tying Terminology etc.

Veniard is the acknowledged expert on fly-tying and his previous books are the standard works on the subject. In this book, however, he concentrates on helping tyers with those parts of the fly-tying process which seem to present special problems.

• Keywords: Fly Fishing · Fly Fishing & Angling Collection · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713618337
• Inventory Number: 42082AB