SPORTS & RECREATION
180 Pages, 6.0 x 9.0
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $24.95 (US $24.95)
Publication Date: July 2019
ISBN 9781773860008
Rights: US
Caitlin Press Inc. (Jul 2019)
In Essential Fly Patterns for Lakes and Streams, Brian Smith cuts to the chase, offering the reader and fly tier more than 80 flies with recipes and instructions for each. In his third book, Smith shares the results of his more than 50 years of experimentation and research developing and refining fly patterns that are proven fish-catchers. Some of the patterns are world standards, but many have been tweaked and altered by Smith through his observations and studies of insects, including where they live in lakes and streams and what triggers are responsible to entice fish to “eat the fly.” The book provides details for tying the most important insect imitations in their various stages of lifeforms and is full of Smith’s important tips about their pattern developments. The fly-tying tips in Essential Fly Patterns for Lakes and Streams have been perfected over Smith’s countless hours of fun at the vise and are uniquely designed to simplify the process of tying replica fly patterns that are consistent in appearance, size, shape and attitude.
Brian Smith is a freelance outdoor writer who has been an accomplished fly tier, rod builder and fly-fishing enthusiast for more than 50 years. His work has appeared in Outdoor Edge magazine, Fly Fishing & Tying Journal, the Canadian Fly Fisher magazine and Northwood Magazine. He is the author of Fly Fishing BC’s Interior and Seasons of a Fly Fisher. He lives in Prince George, BC.