Author: TED LEESON; JIM SCHOLLMEYER.
Title: The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles.
Description: Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications, Inc. 1998. Later printing. Large Quarto. (12 x 9). 444 pp. including index. A monumental work showing hundreds of tying techniques with matching step-by-step color instructional photos. If you can't learn to tie your favorite patterns from this book, well, hang-up your bobbin. Looking back at the history of fly dressing, there must have been a point in time - at least 50 years ago - when the proliferation of available fly patterns exceeded the fantasies of even the most compulsive hatch matchers; but the passage of time has clearly shown there wasn't, as alcoholics sometimes note, "a moment of clarity" - and it continues today, headlong, steadily gathering steam; flies to entice every supposed mood or whim of a fish with a pea-sized brain. Is there no end to it? This opinion clearly doesn't encourage the sale of fly tying books (and this is a fine book on the topic, well-written and with great photos) but the inebriated rationale for the plethora of flies occasionally causes me wonder how things got so out of hand. The book is bound in blue cloth with silver titles and decorations. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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