FLY TYING PROBLEMS AND THEIR ANSWERS. By John Veniard.

ND (1959) 1st edition. 8vo paperback (139 x 215mm). Ppii,61. Illustrations. Red card covers, upper cover titled in black, spine untitled.

"This little book is the result of a series of articles which appeared in the "Fishing Gazette" between October 1956 and February 1957." Covering all of the basic techniques of fly-tying with the clearest of explanatory illustrations, this is an excellent manual for the novice fly-tyer. Contents include; wings and winging; winding hackles and the whip finish; double hackles and false hackles; stiffening dry-fly hackles and hackling dapping flies; making flies with 'parachute' hackles; stripping peacock herls for quill bodies; rare hackles - supply, demand and substitutes; making 'shaving-brush' flies; making herl bodies and butts; preparing and tying in golden pheasant crests for topping and tails; making 'dubbing' bodies; mixing dubbing (furs) for bodies and storing for esy access; making tinsel bodies; making tandem hook mounts for lures, etc; making hair bodies and head of 'muddler minnow'; making detached bodies; hooks - terminology; tying sliks - colours to use; fly-tying terminology.