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The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

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Tom Rosenbauer

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs.
Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.

Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 328 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-1-4930-2581-7 • Paperback • July 2019 • $39.95 • (£31.00)

978-1-4930-2582-4 • eBook • July 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Fishing

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

Revised

Paperback

eBook

Summary

This essential book on fly tying will teach anyone how to tie flies. All the important techniques are illustrated with color photographs, from starting the thread on the hook to whip finishing. The book lays the basic ground work by fully explaining simple tying techniques, and then progresses to detailed tying instructions for some of the most popular, modern patterns. How to choose and prepare the correct material, and all the necessary tying steps for each fly, are detailed in superb, large, color photographs.
Even if you have no previous tying experience, you'll be able to tie dries, nymphs, streamers, saltwater offerings, and bass bugs after just a few sessions with this book. The tyer is then advised how to progress to similar patterns using the same basic techniques. Also included is a huge reference of fly patterns - more than four hundred flies from the Orvis catalog are shown in full color, along with the tying recipes and proportions for each one. This book, drawing from the Orvis Company's vast resources and teaching experience and written by an author whose name is synonymous with Orvis, has become the bible for fly-tyers of all skill levels.

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Globe Pequot / Lyons Press

Pages: 328 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-1-4930-2581-7 • Paperback • July 2019 • $39.95 • (£31.00)

978-1-4930-2582-4 • eBook • July 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Fishing

Author

Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for four decades, and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen. He is the author of numerous books, as well as countless articles for American Angler, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other periodicals. He is a marketing manager with the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, and lives in nearby Pawlet.

Reviews

"If you're a beginning fly angler, you should make Orvis Fly-Tying Guide your bible."-- The Frederick News-Post
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Awards

• Winner, 2019 Izaak Walton Award - American Museum of Fly Fishing The Izaak Walton Award was established in 2014 to honor and celebrate individuals who live by the “Compleat Angler” philosophy. Their passion for the sport of fly fishing and their involvement in the angling community provides inspiration for others and promotes the legacy of leadership for future generations. (2019)

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

Revised

Tom Rosenbauer

The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide

Revised

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