GOOD FLIES: FAVORITE TROUT PATTERNS AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY. By John Gierach. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

(2000) 2014 new edition. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxxii,153. B/w illustrations by Barry Glickman. Light green boards, spine titled in dark green gilt.

Practical and amusing observations on flies and fly tying. This second edition has a lengthy new introduction by the author. "...John Gierach focuses on the trout flies he has found most successful and tells how he ties them. He began as a hopeless tinkerer who tried to tie every pattern in existence, but eventually settled on a large handful of favorite patterns - 'good flies' - with which he catches most of his trout. Gierach analyzes the tools he uses for tying and advocates those patterns that are simple and basic (and few). ...enriched with fishing stories and observations from days astream and days at his vise, all in Gierach's inimitable style: rambling a little, following this thread and that, always full of wit and deft experience, with a plain-spoken sensibility that has made him America's favorite fly-fishing author."