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Featherwing & Hackle Flies for Salmon

& Hackle Flies for Salmon
A Comprehensive Guide for Anglers and Flytyers

This this truly international guide to salmon flies features the featherwing and hackle patterns very much in use all over North America and in the UK and Europe today. Chirs Mann describes the origins of the flies, lists their precise dressings, and provides a superb colour illuistrtion of each one - elements which will inspire today`s flytyers to new standards of flytying.

The featherwing and hackle fly patterns used by salmon anglers today are among the oldest and most enduring.

This study focuses purely on those colourful salmon flies which are tied with bird feathers. The tradition - tying flies with feathers - is a very old one indeed. Recorded in Ancient Greece, it was certainly popular with anglers in the Middle Ages.

But it was the Victorians who really brought the art of tying salmon flies with feathers to new heights of perfection with their elaborate built-wing flies, using feathers from a huge range of exotic birds. After a period in which featherwing flies were eclipsed by those made from animal hairs and man-made materials, the pupularity and sheer versatility of using feathers in salmon fly design is once again returning. Not that it ever deserted the tyers of Irish shrimp flies or the steelhead flies of the West Coast.

This new book, a must for salmon anglers and flytyers, catalogues and records the fascinating continuity of an important genre of flies.

Author: Chris Mann
Illustrator: Chris Mann
ISBN: 978 1 873674 86 4
Published: October 2006
Latest edition: January 1920
Format: 276 x 210 mm
Binding: Hardback
No. of pages: 224
400 colour illustrations

Our Price: £20.00

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