Description

Charlie Craven’s Basic Fly Tying is a modern course in fly-tying fundamentals covering the essential tools, materials, & techniques needed to tie a wide range of popular flies. This book covers cutting-edge techniques for the more tried-and-true classics, such as the Royal Wulff, Adams, & Hare’s Ear, and shares innovative approaches to current patterns such as the Brassie, RS2, & Copper John.

With clear, concise text, Charlie Craven’s Basic Fly Tying provides tips and techniques from his over thirty years of tying flies for fly shops on Colorado’s Front Range. This book is built on Craven’s successful fly-tying classes, which start out with simple flies and work toward more complex patterns, all the while teaching techniques and introducing materials by tying popular patterns that catch fish in Eastern and Western streams. This series of lessons show how flies build on one another, enabling readers to tie a wide range of patterns simply by breaking them down into parts. Craven illustrates the progression with his meticulous directions to fingerbusters like Copper Johns, Stimulators, and Humpies.

This book, which is sure to become a standard text for basic fly tying, covers 17 flies (including recipes for popular variations), including the Brassie, Black Beauty, RS2, Hare’s Ear, Pheasant Tail, Prince Nymph, Copper John, Woolly Bugger, Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, Adams, Rusty Spinner, Parachute Blue-Winged Olive, X Comparadun, Royal Wulff, Humpy, and Goddard Caddis.

Format Hardcover – 288 pages / 1,000 color photos.

Dimensions – 8.5 x 11 inches

ISBN: 0-9793460-2-9

EAN: 978-0-9793460-2-6

Other titles by Charlie Craven, and a range of renowned fly tiers and authors, can be found in the Books Category in the Troutlore Fly Tying Store. We are always in search of new titles to add to our book collection, not just for the Troutlore library, but to offer for sale to Australia fly tiers. IF you can’t find a title you are specifically looking for, get in touch and we will see if it can be sourced, and kept in stock. Keep up to date with new releases through our newsletter and social media outlets.