101 Innovative Fly Tying Techniques: How to Tie Flies Quickly, Easily, and Professionally - Hardcover

Come along with fly-tying legend Charles Meck and learn to tie flies quickly, easily, and professionally, using his time-tested techniques. Included in this book are such invaluable techniques as: How to make a whip-finish and half hitch with ease; tying legs on nymphs and emergers; how to tie terrestrial patterns for specific streams; anchoring synthetic materials to the hook; an easy way to prevent a wing from slipping forward; the best way to tie a Buskin Crayfish; fishing tips for all patterns and water types and much more.You'll also learn how to tie emergers, nymphs, wet flies, terrestrials, conventional dry flies, spentwings, down-wings, parachutes, streamers, bucktails, and Stimulator-type patterns. All told, Meck gives you detailed instructions for tying more than forty-one highly productive patterns. (6 x 9 1/4, 208 pages, color photos, diagrams, charts)Charles R. Meck has fly-fished for more than fifty years. He has written nine books on the subject, including Meeting and Fishing the Hatches and Pennsylvania Trout Streams and Their Hatches. He has taught fly tying and fishing in Canada, New Zealand, and more than twenty states, and has written more than five hundred magazine and newspaper articles on fly fishing. Previously the regional director for continuing education at Penn State University, he divides his time between homes in State College, Pennsylvania and Mesa, Arizona.