A very nice collection of hairwing 'lures' Jeff.
Coincedentally I have been reading some of my collection of older fly dressing
books, especially W. H. Lawrie's "All-Fur Flies and how to dress them" (1967)
and Tom Stewart's "Two Hundred Popular Flies" (1979).
I can recommend both books, Lawrie's book gives a lot of interesting original patterns for
salmon and sea trout.
Stewart's book has a more varied selection, but there are a lot of 'lure' patterns, some of them
quite old, Stewart died just before the publication. The book is based on a series of articles in
'Trout and Salmon' magazine before 1962. Although the illustrations are all hand drawn, this book
is a great source of often forgotten patterns. I am probably talking to the converted,
regarding yourself Jeff, but there are a lot of tyers out there who would find them interesting.
They are both very cheap as second hand books.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Se...=All-Fur+Flies
Cheapest BP7.00 $11.12
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Se...+Popular+Flies
Cheapest BP2.04 $3.24
I hope somebody finds this usefull.
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