BUG MAKING: A THOROUGH GUIDE TO MAKING AND TYING FLOATING BUGS FOR ALL GAMEFISH - BLUEGILL TO BILLFISH. By C. Boyd Pfeiffer.

(1993) later reprint. 8vo paperback (153 x 228mm). Ppxvi,271. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography.

"A thorough guide to making and tying floating bugs for all game fish - bluegill to billfish." This book "covers everything from panfish poppers to small-mouth sliders, trout terrestrials to huge billfish popping bugs, saltwater skippers to pike poppers. Bug Making covers all types of traditional, modern and innovative designs. The emphasis is on easy, effective, and durable bug construction, using all of the important materials available today: deer hair, soft closed-cell foam, cork, balsa, PVC and EVA foams, Ethafoam, hard molded foams, cut and molded foam, and even esoteric materials such as turkey quills and surfboards." Contents include:- Tools and materials; Terrestrials - designs and tying styles; Tying hair-bodied bugs; Hair-bodied bug designs; Cork bug construction; Balsa and wood bug construction; Molded bug construction; Soft-foam bug construction; Tying and finishing methods for hard-bodied bugs; Hard-bug design and styles; Painting and finishing bugs; Rigging bugs and bug-fishing tackle; Fishing methods, retrieves, and manipulation of bugs.