HOOKED ON FLIES: CONFESSIONS OF A PATTERN INVENTOR. By William C. Black.

1980 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppx,146. B/w photographs, illustrations, colour plates of flies on end-papers. Gilt fly motif to green boards, spine titled in gilt.

In this book, what William C. Black "has done is to tie and test and discard a great number of new of modified patterns and to salvage a handful of innovations that proved to be outstandingly effective over an extended period of time and under a variety of conditions". Chapters include: Why bother?; The Spanish Fly; The golden Adams; The Laramie; The Maniac Nymph; The Trashliner Flies; The Little Hopper; The Black Widow; The Pink Wolf; The blue Max; The Tadpole; Final thoughts.