PREY: DESIGNING AND TYING NEW IMITATIONS OF FRESH AND SALTWATER FORAGE FOODS. By Carl Richards.

1995 1st edition. Large square octavo (183 x 242mm). Ppxii,132. Colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Two-tone black and grey boards, spine titled in yellow.

"Designing and tying new imitations of fresh and saltwater forage foods." Tying baitfish, crab, shrimp and crayfish imitations. Chapters include: Characteristics of a successful pattern; A systematic method of designing realistic prey imitations; Fly tying materials and their properties; Fifteen tying techniques. Baitfish techniques: Herring-shaped fish; Anchovies and Shiner-shaped fish; Mullet-shaped fish; Yarnhead; Glass Minnows; Pin Fish, Butterfish, Bluegill-shaped fish; Schlapen technique; Latex tails; Latex-bodied fish imitations. Invertebrate techniques: Crabs; Snapping Shrimp, Lobsters, Freshwater Crayfish; Swimming Shrimp; Shrimpy; Mantis Shrimp; Sea Urchins. Tying Spanish Sardines and Scaled Sardines (Herring-shaped fish); Tying Shiners, Anchovies, Sand Lace and Silversides (slim-shaped fish); Tying Bonefish, Mullet and latex tails (round-bodied fish); Tying Glass Minnows; Tying Pin Fish and Mojarra (Bluegill-shaped fish); Tying Spot-Finned Mojarra (Schlapen technique); Tying little Brook Trout (latex-bodied technique); Tying crabs (Atlantic Mole Crabs, Black-Fingered Mud Crabs, Casa Blanca Blue Crabs, Green Reef Crabs, Pacific Mole Crabs, Common Blue Crabs, and Smooth Porcelain Crabs); Tying Snapping Shrimp, Crayfish, and Spiny Lobsters; Tying commercial Swimming Shrimp, Grass and Shore Shrimp; Tying Mantis Shrimp; Tying Sea Urchins; Tying the Shrimpys. Constructing an attachable weed guard; Tactics for selective fresh and saltwater gamefish using close imitations.