Fishing Flies. Smalley

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      AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

      FISHING FLIES

      Malcolm Greenhalgh

      Photography by Jason Smalley

      FLIES TIED BY

      Stuart Bowdin, Mick Hall, Chris Hosker,

      Terry Jenner, Stevie Munn and friends

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Trout and Grayling Flies

       Dry Flies and Floating Flies

       Upwinged Fly Spinners

       Stoneflies

       Caddisflies, or Sedges

       Adult Midges

       Damselflies

       Terrestrials … or Land-Bred Insects that Fall Onto the Water

       Dry Flies for Grayling

       Fancy Wet Flies or Loch/Sea Trout Flies

       Streamers and Bucktails

       Flies for Salmon, Sea Trout and Steelhead

       Early Salmon Flies

       Classic Salmon Flies

       Hair-Winged Salmon Flies

       Salmon Shrimps and Prawns

       Salmon Dry Flies

       Flies for Sea-Run Trout: Sea Trout, Steelhead, Cutthroat and Char

       Flies for Freshwater Predators

       Saltwater Flies

       The Art of Fly-Dressing … or Why People Tie Flies

       Select Bibliography

       Index

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      The dressing of flies is one of the most delightful and at the same time one of the most impudently ambitious of human activities … Perhaps the dresser of trout-flies is the most impudent of all, for he is ready to let a fly that he has dressed join a procession of real ones and expects a trout to accept it as one of those living insects that float before his eyes at the time.

      Arthur Ransome, Mainly About Fishing, 1959.

      I first picked up a fly rod when I was in my teens 45 years ago and in the last 23 years fly-fishing and its associated natural history have dominated my life. Through my association with the hook-maker Partridge (now part of the Mustad empire) I have been lucky to tie flies at shows alongside the very best: people such as Peter Dunne, Oliver Edwards, Jack Gartside, Robert Gillespie, John Goddard, Hans de Groote, Preben Torp Jacobsen, Ed Jaworowski, Terry Jenner, Poul Jorgensen, Hans van Klinken, Lefty Kreh, Paul Little, Robert McHaffie, Frankie McPhillips, E. J. (Ted) Malone, Darrel Martin, Roman Moser, Marvin Nolte, Jack Norris, Hans Odegard, Marc Petitjean, Bob Popovics, Taff Price, Terry Ruane, Dave Whitlock and Davy Wootton. That this was possible was because of one man, the late Alan Bramley who, as Managing Director of Partridge of Redditch, did more than anyone in bringing together the top fly-tyers from around the world. I have dedicated this book to his memory.

      I have also been very fortunate over the last 23 years in being able to travel widely with my fly-rods and to experience fly-fishing for many other species of fish besides the trout, grayling and salmon of my home waters. Species such as largemouth and smallmouth bass in Ontario; striped bass and bluefish off the shores of New England; bonefish, permit and tarpon on many a tropical ‘flat’; steelhead and sea-run cutthroat in British Columbia; char, whitefish and ide in Scandinavia; and peacock bass and piranha in four Amazonian rivers. So I have had to learn a vast array of flies far removed from the handful of trout and

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