Rene tied many of the flies for Tom Morgan's book ( http://www.troutrods.com/slowpoke.html ), where the flies Tom talks about come with book. I got to see those flies before they were parceled out into the boxed book sets. They were astonishing. I've seen a few other tiers who do flawless, imaculate work. But Rene's flies also a have the most graceful proportions. In Tom's book the flies that come with the boxed set are all mounted on magnetic rods so you pick each fly up and examine it in your hands. That was a brilliant design addition to an incredibly executed publication.