Author: KEITH E. PERRAULT.
Title: Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies.
Description: Orlando, Florida. Kepcor. 1984. First Edition. Large Octavo (9 x 6 ½). 705 pp. including a list of suppliers, tiers, bibliography, glossary. Introduction by Charles F. Waterman. There's one hell of a lot flies listed herein - some 16,000. Flies for every fish that swims in saltwater, freshwater, waters north and south, east and west, lakes and streams, creeks, drainage ditches, ponds, sloughs, and lawn pools; streamers, dries, nymphs, wets, terrestrials, all intended to entice trout, steelhead, salmon, bass, dorado, tarpon, bonefish, cuda, lungfish, big crabs and baby Orcas; there all here, thousands of them. Does a fly fisher need or want even a small percentage of the patterns listed? Likely not. But it's nonetheless interesting to look over the course of several centuries and the subsequent explosion of fly patterns and realize that so many fly fishers assigned near Mensa qualities to creatures with pea-sized brains. In his review of the book in Fly Fisherman Magazine, Paul Schullery was no fan: "if you want a truly enormous list of fly patterns, and if you can settle for an absolute minimum of information about each, or if reading cramped, dot-matrix computer type is among your deeper joys, then this book will serve you well." The book is bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. A nice book. Former owner’s discrete blind stamp, otherwise fine.

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