Isbn: 9780716006527 - fly dressing and some tackle making (paperfronts s.) (1 resultados)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). (1963) 1979 revised edition. Small 8vo paperback (110 x 180mm). Pp160. B/w illustrations by the author. Brown cover with colour illustration in quarters showing stages in the tying of a fly. Usual uniform browning, reading crease to spine. Good only. "No matter how rapid the advance of technology during the next twenty-five years or so it is a fairly safe bet that the fabricating of flies for fishing will still be by hand." And so it has proved. Chapters include: General materials; Natural insects; Two useful knots and other items; Some fly-dressing terms; Parts of trout fly; Dressing Spider dry fly; A down-winged pattern; Dressing a winged dry fly; Creating a nymph; The Winged Mayfly; Trout-fly dressings; Lures, demons, terrors and streamers; Dressing salmon-flies; Dressing a Thunder and Lightning and a Durham Ranger; Famous salmon-flies and dressings; Salt-water flies; Fins, swivels and otters; Spoons, Devons, minnows and worm tackles; Salt-water artificials and odds and ends. .…