ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1995). 1995 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 236mm). Ppviii,226. Colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Two-tone cloth-backed boards, spine-titled in blue. Very good in shelf-worn dust-wrapper. First edition, first printing, signed by the author. "Over the years" the author discovered "that he was constantly running into situations where the best match for the hatch was wet fly. .Hughes began to question the commonly held principle that a trout willing to strike a dry fly was wasted if taken any other way, and he began a systematic look at all the stages of insects that were best matched with subsurface patterns. .His years of study, research, and writing have resulted in a new, important [work] on the subject of wet flies." Chapters include; the subsurface fly and the natural insect; looking into literature; how it happened in America; soft-hackles, flymphs, winged wets, and fuzzy nymphs; tying soft-hackled flies; tying wingless wets, flymphs; tying traditional winged wets; tying fuzzy nymphs; tackle for fishing subsurface flies; fishing the surface and just below it; methods for the mid-depths; four men and their methods; fishing small creeks with subsurface flies; stages of the mayfly; emergence and egg-laying activity of caddis; subsurface secrets of stoneflies; matching midges; alders, and others; arriving at your own patterns. . Seller Inventory # 52680

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Title: WET FLIES: TYING AND FISHING SOFT-HACKLES, ...

Publisher: Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 1995

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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A detailed survey of the history and use of wet flies, with step-by-step tying sequences. A standard reference on the subject.

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Dave Hughes is a highly respected fly-fishing writer with more than two dozen books in print, including Trout from Small Streams: 2nd Edition, Handbook of Hatches: 2nd Edition, and Trout Flies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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