Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple: An Easy-to-Follow All-Color Guide

by Skip Morris

Overview

Expert fly tier Skip Morris shows how easy it is to tie classic and popular flies for all kinds of fly fishing, presenting basic information on tying effective go-to flies in a clear, organized way and giving advice for when tying goes wrong. Skip covers nymphs, streamers, soft hackles, and dry flies with 16 classic flies—Wooly Bugger, Mickey Finn, Black Ghost, Griffith’s Gnat, and many more. Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple is the primer for learning how to tie flies—a time-tested classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811770521
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	04/15/2022
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Skip Morris is a full-time fly-fishing author and speaker who has published dozens of books on fly tying and fly fishing. Among them, his Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple has become the standard beginner’s fly-tying guide. Skip lives with his photographer/illustrator wife, Carol, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Introduction 7

Part-I

Fly Tying Essentials 8

Tools 8

Materials 11

Hooks Simplified 15

Part-II

Nymphs And The Woolly Bugger 18

Rick's Caddis 19

White and Grizzly Woolly Bugger 26

Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear 31

Morristone 35

Pheasant Tail 39

Skip Nymph Dark 42

Part-III

The Bucktail, Streamer, And Soft Hackle 44

Mickey Finn 45

Black Ghost 49

Partridge and Yellow Soft Hackle 53

Part-IV

Dry Flies 55

The Adams and the Classic Dry Fly 56

More Classic Dry Fly Wings and Bodies 60

Gray Wulff 63

Elk Hair Caddis 66

Comparadun (March Brown) 68

Light Cahill Parachute 71

Griffith's Gnat 74

Additional Nymphs 76

Additional Bucktails, Streamers and Soft Hackles 77

Additional Dry Flies 78

Basic Principles of Fly Tying 79

Essential Entomology 80