STEELHEAD FLIES. By John Shewey.

2006 1st edn. De Luxe issue. 4to. Pp216. Colour plates of flies, colour photographs, brief bibliography. Black bonded leather gilt.

This is a very extensive manual of Steelhead flies and fly-tying: the contents are arranged in order of tying technique, with fly patterns introduced progressively according to the techniques and materials required to tie each of the many dozens of patterns. Packed with step-by-step photographs showing the tying of individual patterns as well as numerous plates of flies, many of them shown very large on the book's generously-proportioned pages. Chapters include: Materials for steelhead flies; Basic tying techniques; Hairwing steelhead flies; Featherwing steelhead flies; Spey- and Dee-style steelhead flies; Practitioners, shrimp and prawn patterns; Steelhead dry flies; A gallery of dressings.