Bates Jr., Joseph D. – ATLANTIC
SALMON FLIES AND FISHING – 1995 expanded 1995 printing
of 1970 1st – 352p – Stackpole, Harrisburg – This new
edition of Bates’s classic work contains new color plates, a new foreward
by Angus Cameron, artwork by Milton Weiler, patterns, historical and background
information. Bates presents an authoritative study of how to tie and fish
flies for Atlantic salmon. He offers dressings for flies, old and new, including
dries, wets and nymphs. Also included are American and British feather-wings,
hair-wings, and flies from other countries, as dressed by such renown tyers
as T.E. Pryce Tannant, Charles Akroyd, Charlie DeFeo, Preston Jennings,
Megan Boyd, Jimmy Younger, Belarmino Martinez and Lee Wulff. –
Book and jacket as new. - $40.00
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