LISTEN TO THE RIVER: VOLUME TWO. By Steve Thornton. Cloth-bound hardback edition.

2006 1st edition. 8vo (172 x 255mm). Pp144. Colour photographs throughout. Handsome blind-stamped decorative cloth binding, upper board and spine titled in red.

"A new book of 16 new innovative patterns... packed with new unpublished tying techniques not yet seen by the flytyer, including new detached abdomen tying techniques, new legging techniques and "Hair Rig" abdomens. These make small insects like hatching olives, duns and spinners, realistic. They are easy to tie, yet very realistic and create a natural movement, just like the real insect. Steve shows you in high quality step by step photography how to make these exciting new tying techniques and patterns and more. Learn how to tie new legging techniques on patterns". Legs where they should be, underneath the hook shank, not on top". This new tying technique provides a footprint much closer to the natural insect as it hatches or floats on the surface film. Steve has constantly made notes on his travels about new techniques he has learnt. One technique he learnt in British Columbia and on the storied rivers of the Catskills, New York is the art of fishing streamers. This highly effective technique really does search out the larger fish in the rivers. Another technique Steve has learnt is "speed fishing". This is an absolutely fantastic dry fly style of fishing. This and other techniques are all revealed in this book". Listen to the River Volume 2 was issued in four editions - a working edition which is spiral-bound, a collector's leather bound edition, a cloth-bound edition and a special collectors Deluxe Leather edition. This is a copy of the cloth-bound edition.