Making Better Flies: How to Design, Develop, and Improve Fly Patterns for Salt and Fresh Water - Softcover

Lou Tabory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811711382 ISBN 13: 9780811711388

Publisher: Stackpole Books, 2016

Synopsis

Making Better Flies

Rolling and Bracing

Illustrated throughout, Making Better Flies is a comprehensive new fly-tying manual for designing and improving patterns for salt and fresh water. However, it is not only a fly-tying manual, but also a study in successful fly design from one of the most influential designers in the country. Learn how to make flies behave like naturals, adapt patterns to imitate numerous baits, and trigger strikes when fish aren t feeding. It covers all important design considerations, including shape, movement and action, colour, and sink rate and balance. It also has superb advice on how to set up a fly box as well as learning how to tie 21 of the most effective saltwater patterns.

- Comprehensive fly-tying manual for designing, developing and improving patterns for salt and fresh water.
- A study in successful fly design from one of the most influential designers in the USA.
- Learn how to make flies behave like naturals and how to tie 21 of the most effective saltwater patterns.
- Covers all important design considerations shape, movement, colour, sink rate and balance.
- Advice for how to set up a fly box.
- Illustrated throughout with over 376 colour photographs.

About The Author

Lou Tabory has been an outdoor writer for nearly fifty years, with articles in many major sporting publications including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Salt Water Sportsman, Fly Fisherman, Salt Water Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing in Salt Water, The Drake, and American Angler. During that same period, he delivered slide shows, talks, and casting demos that taught fly casting, fly fishing, and knot tying. He is the author of Inshore Fly Fishing (978-0-7627-6434-1), Lou Tabory s Guide to Saltwater Baits and Their Imitations (978-1-55821-361-6), Stripers on the Fly (978-1-55821-639-6), The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Striped Bass and Bluefish (978-1-58574- 076-5), and Inshore Fly Fishing: 2nd Edition (978-0-7627-6434-1). He lives in Connecticut, USA.

About this title

About the Author

Lou Tabory has been an outdoor writer for nearly fifty years, with articles in many major sporting publications including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Salt Water Sportsman, Fly Fisherman, Salt Water Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing in Salt Water, The Drake, and American Angler. During that same period, he delivered slide shows, talks, and casting demos that taught fly casting, fly fishing, and knot tying. He is the author of Inshore Fly Fishing (978-0-7627-6434-1), Lou Tabory s Guide to Saltwater Baits and Their Imitations (978-1-55821-361-6), Stripers on the Fly (978-1-55821-639-6), The Orvis Pocket Guide to Fly Fishing for Striped Bass and Bluefish (978-1-58574- 076-5), and Inshore Fly Fishing: 2nd Edition (978-0-7627-6434-1). He lives in Connecticut, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811711382
• ISBN 13: 9780811711388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208