FLY DRESSING AND SOME TACKLE-MAKING. Written and illustrated by W.E. (Bill) Davies.

(1963) 1974 new paperback edition. Small 8vo paperback (110 x 180mm). Pp160. B/w illustrations by the author. Yellow cover with b/w illustration of a trout and flies.

"No matter how rapid the advance of technology during the next twenty-five years or so it is a fairly safe bet that the fabricating of flies for fishing will still be by hand". And so it has proved. Chapters include: General materials; Natural insects; Two useful knots and other items; Some fly-dressing terms; Parts of a trout fly; Dressing Spider dry fly; A down-winged pattern; Dressing a winged dry fly; Creating a nymph; The Winged Mayfly; Trout-fly dressings; Lures, demons, terrors and streamers; Dressing salmon-flies; Dressing a Thunder and Lightning and a Durham Ranger; Famous salmon-flies and dressings; Salt-water flies; Fins, swivels and otters; Spoons, Devons, minnows and worm tackles; Creating artificial Jungle Cock; Some new flies; Salt-water artificial odds and ends.