The Dry Fly

All about flies Fly Tying
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A couple of books on dry flies -

“Floating Flies and how to dress them.”
F. M. Halford 1886

“Dry Fly Fishing”
F. M. Halford 1889

They can be found on
http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Jeff,
The first book, Floating Flies, has a section on
dying materials that might interest you.

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Hi Donald,

Thanks for that. I found the first one and read it last week, but overlooked the second. Must get that as well. I’m really enjoying all these older books.

What I really enjoy is the precision in the dressings, like the tails being “two fibres from a brown cock’s hackle”, etc. It all sounds overly specific, but I’ve tied a few and they look really smart when dressed slim, with tiny wings, sparse hackles, and these 2 or 3 fibre tails.

  • Jeff
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Thank you, Sir. You continue to do us great service.

Ed

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Thanks Don

Great books I’ve gotten through the first 5 chapters on the first book and have them bookmarkred.

Fatman

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Thank you very much for the link to the archive; I am really enjoying it!