TYING THE CLASSIC SALMON FLY: A MODERN APPROACH TO TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES. Edited by Michael D. Radencich. First edition.

1997 1st edition. Folio (222 x 285mm). Ppxiv,226. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Black boards, gilt salmon fly to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

Includes step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions on tying a variety of classic salmon patterns by the best salmon fly tiers in North America. Contributors include Wayne Luallen, Bob Veverka, Marvin Nolte and Darwin Atkin. Articles on tying married-wing, full feather wing, and strip-wing flies, dyeing materials, hook-making and matting and framing classic salmon flies. A large, handsome, useful and beautifully illustrated book. Chapters include: Description of the parts of a salmon fly, Marvin Nolte and Michael D. Radencich; Tying the Baron, a married-wing fly, Wayne Luallen; Tying the Regalia, a full-feather-wing fly, Mark Waslick; Tying a typical strip-wing or Dee Fly, Bob Veverka; Working with materials and additional techniques, Marvin Nolte, G. Stackhouse Scoville, Jr., M.D., Michael D. Radencich; The science and practice of dyeing fly-tying materials, Wm. T. Roubal; Making exhibition-quality hooks, Eugene Sunday; Matting and framing your flies, Darwin Atkin; A gallery of salmon fly-tying art. Appendices are: Patterns for Chapters 6 and 9; Sources of dyes, mordants and auxiliaries.