THE FEATHER BENDER'S FLYTYING TECHNIQUES: with video link to the author tying every fly featured. By Barry Ord Clarke.

(2019) 2021 reprint. 4to hardback (222 x 282mm). Pp256. Colour and some b/w photographs throughout, foreword by Marc Petitjean. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

"With the help of this book, a good deal of practice and a pinch of patience, you can master proportions, uniformity and prfection." "This book is aimed at all flytyers, from those with modest experience to more advanced skills, and my aim is to give tuition in certain important elementary techniques, and ... to share some of my favourite contemporary twists on old techniques. Many of the flies in this book use my own techniques and patterns which I have developed over 35 years of tying ... One of the key factors to ... success is having available good tutorials. This book will give you the best detailed images avaiable, for every step, from attaching the tying thread to the finished fly. All this is accompanied with a clear instructional text which will lead you through each of the patterns." The book gives the address of Barry Orde Clarke's channel on the internet. There, you can ask him questions via the comments section and see videos of him tying each fly discussed in this book. "This is not just a book of fishing flies, although the patterns included will all catch fish: this is a book about mastering fly tying techniques ... With the help of this book, a good deal of practice and a pinch of patience, you can master proportions, uniformity and prfection." Chapters include: Gill Abdomen Mayfly Nymph; Pheasant Tail Nymph; Burrowing Mayfly Nymph; Klinkhammer; CDC and Deer Hair Emerger; Vulgata Emerger; Wally Wing Dun; Humpy; CDC Para-weld Mayfly; Detached Deer-Hair Body Mayfly; Deer Hair Irresistible; Large Mayfly Dun; CDC Mayfly Spinner; All Hackle Dry; House Builder Caddis; Flashback Caddis larva; Antron Caddis Pupa; GandH Sedge; Sedge Hog Variant; Para-weld Caddis; Mutant; Hawthorn fly; Long-legged Midge; Hatching Midge; Willow Fly; John Storey; Damsel Stalking Bug. "The only restriction on your fly tying will be the limits of your own imagination."