The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

by Tom Rosenbauer
The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

by Tom Rosenbauer

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Overview

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs. Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493025817
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/01/2019
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 328
Sales rank: 355,818
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for four decades, and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen. He is the author of numerous books, as well as countless articles for American Angler, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other periodicals. He is a marketing manager with the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, and lives in nearby Pawlet.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Part I The Basics 1

1 Getting Started 3

2 Tools 25

3 Materials 33

4 Hooks, Threads, and Cements 61

Part II Tying Instructions 73

Woolly Bugger 76

Clouser Minnow 84

Frenchie Jig Nymph 91

Chernobyl Ant 97

Hare's Ear Nymph 104

Copper John 112

PMD Sparkle Dun 119

Stimulator 127

Cone Head Bunny Muddler 134

Deer Hair Bass Bug 141

Puglisi Spawning Shrimp 154

Parachute Adams Dry 163

Part III Pattern Index 173

Index 313

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