MODERN TERRESTRIALS: TYING AND FISHING THE WORLD'S MOST EFFECTIVE PATTERNS. By Rick Takahashi and Jerry Hubka.

2015 1st edition. 4to ring-bound hardback (280 x 216mm). Pp256. Colour photographs of flies by Mark Yamauchi and Mark Tracy, b/w line illustrations. Laminated boards.

A "thoroughly comprehensive book of contemporary terrestrial patterns. Terrestrials, a broad category of potential fish food ranging from land-dwelling insects to mice, are one of the most important food sources for trout around the world. Whether one ties or buys one's flies, this collection of cutting-edge advice from experts around the world will help one catch more fish. 'Modern Midges greatest achievement is that it includes hundreds of fly patterns that twist, tweak, bend, and broaden our ideas about how to use fly-tying materials to trigger strikes.' Ed Engle." Chapters include: Designing fly patterns; Terrestrial trout foods, Robert Younghanz; Periodical cicadas, Methuselahs of the insect world, Gregory A. Hoover; Common materials; Tying ants; Ant patterns; Tying beetles; Beetle patterns; Tying hoppers and crickets; Grasshopper patterns; Cricket patterns; Tying cicadas; Cicada patterns; Tying mice, moths, caterpillars, and more; Attractor patterns; Bee and wasp patterns; Caterpillar patterns; Fly and moth patterns; Inchworm patterns; Leafhopper patterns; Mice patterns; Spider patterns; Fishing terrestrial flies, Dennis Collier; Hunting trout, Tim Jacobs; Feeding ground; Surface strategies; Waking hoppers, Landon Mayer; Dry dropper tips, Jake Ruthven; Dog day droppers, Duane Redford; The cycle of submergence, Eric Ishiwata; Subsurface techniques; Submerger patterns, Eric Pettine; Fishing terrestrials in the High Country, Steven B. Schweitzer; Fishing high mountain lakes, Scott Kemp; After the Fall; And sometimes, flying ants, Skip Morris; Beyond dusk - to catch a natural born killer, Kevan Evans; Mousing basics, Ken Morrish. Currently out of stock but more due very soon.