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Inside Fly Tying

The book Inside Fly Tying, released in 2006, is filled with a master fly tier Dick Talleur’s tested tips for solving common fly-tying problems and techniques to simplify tying methods. Full of advice and step-by-step color photos, this book will make tying the most fishable and popular flies easier.

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

Dick Talleur
Stackpole Books
Paperback
8 1/2" x 11"
100 pages
299 Color Photos
$19.95 Retail ($23.00 includes Shipping)
0-8117-3138-3

Talleur's newest tying book discusses the benefits and advantages of new natural and synthetic materials. It provides details on specific methods and techniques to make tying easier and produce better results. And it includes some new patterns and designs, all of which he's fished with success. Topics 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
  • Working with Uni-Stretch and foam
  • Spinning deer hair

Talleur shares a wealth of knowledge gleaned from years of experience in this easy to follow guide. Inside Fly Tying will benefit beginner as well as advanced tiers with some problems they encounter most frequently.