FISHING FLIES AND THEIR PLUMAGE. By Michael Veale.

1989 1st edition. 8vo (159 x 240mm). Pp128. Colour plates of flies, b/w photographs. Black boards, gilt titles to spine.

A "a wide-ranging and authoritative book." Chapters include: The beginning - tools, hooks and materials, guide to hackle colours; Dressing the flies - dubbed bodies, herls, quills, dressing a dry fly, palmer hackled wet fly, winging, [and so on...]; Fishing the dry fly and the dry flies of old - lakes and rivers, patterns of James Ogden, George S. Marryat, Frederick M. Halford, and R.S. Austin; Dry flies of today; The wet fly; The wet spiders - dressing the spider, across and down spiders, upstream spiders; Sea trout flies; Lures - muddlers, streamers, hairwing lures, killer wing style, leadhead lure, floating lures; The salmon fly - salmon fly groups and patterns, preparing married wings, tying mixed variant, strip wing variants, whole feather winged, herl wing flies, low water patterns, tying hairwing flies, West Country patterns; Tubes, Waddingtons and special flies; Feathers of game and other birds; Hackles - quality, age, and shape; Breeding for colour, quality and shape; Preparation of bird skin.