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Charlie Cravens Basic Fly Tying is a modern course in fly-tying covering essential tools, materials and techniques. With clear concise text, Craven provides tips and techniques from his over thirty years of tying flies for fly shops in Colorado. This book is based on Cravens successful fly-tying classes, which starts with simple flies and works toward the more complex patterns. This series of lessons show how flies build on one another, enabling you to tie a wide range of patterns simply by breaking them down into parts. Over one thousand colour photographs illustrate the tried and true classics, such as the Royal Wulff, Adams and Hares Ear through to the the more innovative Copper John, Brassie and RS2. Set to become the standard for basic fly tying.

Charlie Craven is president of Charlies Fly Box in Colorado. He designs flies for Umpqua Feather Merchants and was the fly tier and photographer for Barr Flies.