Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1159696 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 68 pages

About the Author
Jay "Fishy" Fullum retired from the newspaper business--writing the outdoor columns for the Troy Record and Albany Times Union--and has since been writing, drawing, and photographing articles in "American Angler" and "Fly Tyer" magazines. He gives fly-tying demonstrations in classes and seminars and is a featured tier and lecturer at the International Fly Tying Symposium in Somerset, New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

Nothing's fishy about this book
Fishy's patterns are a marvel of creativity and resourceful design. His recipe for making hopper wings from interface material treated with model airplane dope is pure elegance, as is his tip for using a large sewing needle to thread rubber legs through foam bodies. The book is well-written, with concise, step-by-step pattern recipes spiced with fishing anecdotes drawn from decades of experience. The tying instructions and hand-drawn illustrations are well done. although I feel the book suffers a bit from a lack of photos of the finished flies.