Fly-tying Problems and Their Answers

Veniard, John/ Downs, Donald. Fly-tying Problems and their answers. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1977. 21cm x 14.1cm. 124 pages. With colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following Wings and Winging/ Winding Hackles and the Whip Finish/ Doubling Hackles and False Hackles/ Stiffeneing Dry-Fly Hackles and Hackling Dapping Flies/ Making Flies with Parachute Hackles/ Strippnig Peacock Herls for Quill Bodies/ Rare Supply, Demand and Substitutes/ Making 'Shaving Brush' Flies/ Making' Dubbing' Bodies/ Making Tandem Hook Mounts for Lures, etc./ Making Hair Bodies and Head of 'Muddler Minnow'/ Making Detached Bodies/ Hooks- Terminology/ Tying Colours to Use/ Fly-Tying Terminology etc. Veniard is the acknowledged expert on fly-tying and his previous books are the standard works on the subject. In this book, however, he concentrates on helping tyers with those parts of the fly-tying process which seem to present special problems.