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    Essential Fly Tying Techniques
    Essential Fly Tying Techniques
    Essential Fly Tying Techniques
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    Essential Fly Tying Techniques

    By Tim Rolston

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    An easily downloadable version of what has been described as the World's most innovative fly tying instruction manual". This eBook version provides instant access to an exceptional array of fly tying techniques. Supported by text, detailed full colour diagrams and links to video clips illustrating both the techiques and the complete flies discussed. By providing only links instead of embedded video content as in the CD verson this book is available for instant download to anyone anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

    80+ colour diagrams
    30+ video links
    24+ key fly tying techniques
    14 complete flies from start to finish
    Essential entomology guide
    Hook selection guide
    Essential fly tying tools
    and more...
    No matter that you are a novice or already accomplished at the vice, this book will teach you something making your time at the vice and on the water, more fun and more productive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Rolston
    Release dateMar 17, 2012
    ISBN9781476308708
    Essential Fly Tying Techniques
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    Tim Rolston

    I am an outdoorsman, not a computer boffin, or at least that was the picture when I started this a few years back. Since then I have become caught up with the advantages of electronic media. Steep learning curves continue, frustrations abound but out of that crucible have I think come some really worthwhile publications. How to Make your own fly fishing lanyard was the first and remains the most popular of all the titles. Plus it's free. Then "Who Packed your Parachute" an investigation into better ways to tie parachute flies followed.Still an experiment and free to anyone. Recently my book "Learn to Fly-cast in a Weekend" previously published in hard cover was converted to electronic format making it available to a far wider audience. It has received great reviews and then came the comprehensive and highly innovative "Essential Fly Tying Skills" book, which was previously only available on CD due to the file sizes has been made available for instant download. Now the genre has expanded further with "Guide Flies", with the same format of graphics, text and video clip links. I am still passionate about the outdoors, fly fishing and writing. I hope that you will enjoy the books and find them useful. I further hope that as I learn more there will be more titles with ever better content. Regards Tim

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      Book preview

      Essential Fly Tying Techniques - Tim Rolston

      Essential Fly Tying Techniques

      by Tim Rolston

      Revised Mar 2012

      Copyright 2012 Tim Rolston

      Smashwords Edition

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people.

      If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient.

      If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Also by Tim Rolston and available from Smashwords:

      Who Packed your Parachute

      Making your own fly fishing lanyard

      100 Fly-Fishing Tips, Tricks and Techniques

      Learn to Fly-cast in a weekend.

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      Table of contents.

      Acknowledgments

      A note about the downloadable edition

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Why and electronic eBook?

      Video Links

      Copyright

      Essential Fly Tying Techniques

      Essential Fly Tying Tools

      Threads

      Understanding fly types

      Essential Entomology

      Complete Metamorphosis

      Incomplete Metamorphosis

      Fly identification

      Basics of Fly Design

      Anatomy and proportions

      Getting Started Essential Skills

      Positioning the hook

      Threading the bobbin holder

      Starting the thread and thread tension

      Touching turns

      Pinch and loop

      Tails and neat underbodies

      Ribbing

      Stacking deer hair

      Spinning deer hair

      Tying in hackles

      Throat hackles

      Dry fly hackles

      Sizing hackles

      Winding dry fly hackles

      Winding wet fly hackles

      "Cheater wet fly hackles

      Palmered hackles

      Parachute hackles

      Parachute posts standard

      Parachute posts looped

      Winding parachute hackles

      Finishing the fly, whip finishes and half hitches

      Tying Essential Nymph Patterns

      The Diawl Bach

      The Brassie

      Bead Head Pheasant Tail Nymph

      Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear

      Tying Essential Wet Fly Patterns

      The No Hackle Soft Hackle Midge

      The Fuzzy Bug

      Basic Soft Hackle

      Tying Essential Dry Flies

      Tying a Standard Dry Fly

      Tying a Parachute Dry Fly

      Tying a Parachute Spider

      Tying an Elk Hair Caddis

      Tying Essential Deer Hair Flies

      Tying the Rat Faced McDougal

      Tying the Marabou Muddler Minnow

      Materials and tools list

      Focus on Fly Hooks

      Postscript

      Forthcoming titles and free downloadable books

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      A note about this downloadable edition:

      This downloadable edition of Essential Fly Tying Techniques has been specifically revamped to allow easy access to readers around the world. To keep the file size down where the CD version of the book contains embedded video clips this one provides links to the same videos made available on line. The book then contains exactly the same information and differs only in that the video portion is only available via the internet. The video links are not openly available and can only be accessed with the specific URL addresses. I hope that you enjoy the book in this format. If you decide that you would rather have the full version on disc please contact the author via E Mail

      Acknowledgments

      As you may well imagine, a project of this nature takes massive amounts of time and although all of the work has been my own no man is an island. There is much in this book that has its roots in other people’s endeavors, not least the fly anglers and fly tyers who have come before. Those people who freely shared their information and insights either on the stream, at the fly tying bench or in books and articles. Fly fishing is for the most part that kind of pursuit, people are generally helpful and friendly, at least on the less populated waters, and information is shared to the benefit of all. So firstly a thank you to all those who have contributed to my fishing and fly tying over the years, some of you may have been passing acquaintances sharing a helpful insight on a small stream whilst others would be considered at least moderately famous.

      All those books and fly tying demonstrations from the likes of Vincent Marinaro, Skip Morris, Lee Wulff, Ed Engle, Oliver Edwards, John Goddard, Taff Price and Brian Clarke have all contributed to both my enjoyment of fly fishing and fly tying and to some of the techniques which have been used or modified over time to fill my fly boxes. Equally local South African fly tiers such as Tom Sutcliffe, Ed Herbst, Tony Biggs, MC Coetzer and others too numerous to mention have all had some influence in one way or another, I rarely put as many materials on a hook as Ed would nor will I spend as much time on a pattern as MC considers normal but contributions from all over have influenced what I tie, the way I tie and my enjoyment of the process.

      In fly fishing we all need to be mindful that we are but links in a chain, what we have we inherited and what we leave behind will be our legacy, not a single one of us would be able to fish or tie flies if it weren’t in some measure the result of those who went before us and I do believe that in ways both large and small we should continue that process of passing on knowledge to newcomers to our chosen sport.

      On a more practical and immediate level the following people have directly influenced the production of this book:

      My very good friend Al Rost-Felder who knows little about fishing and a lot about people and who has always encouraged me to keep bashing away at the keyboard. Catherina Roux, an exceptional lady who can see potential in people with the same quick ease that many use to find fault and who has encouraged me always to be my best and to follow my goals and dreams no matter how steep the climb looks from the bottom. Warren Grant who not only does a great job of hosting my website but who initially instilled in me a love of what computers can do and the potential that they hold for communication. Craig Thom whose business is both fishing tackle and books and whose experience with both has provided valuable insight in helping to create a better product and Mike Spinola my regular fishing partner and someone always up for a lengthy discussion on the merits of anything from rods to hook shapes. Finally the members of the Cape Piscatorial Society, who have endured my rantings in their weekly newsletter for years, which may have done little for my humour but has at least greatly enhanced my typing speed.

      To all of the above, to anglers I have met and those still to cross my path I thank you, for fishing and fly tying wouldn’t be the same without you and life wouldn’t be as valuable without being able to sit at a vice or head for a stream rod in hand, sparkling new flies at the ready.

      ********************************************

      Foreword from Ed Herbst.

      Editor Piscator magazine

      Tim Rolston is well known in local circles as a South African Fly Fishing Team angler, casting instructor and author, but perhaps he is best known for his participation in a charming television advertisement for Bells Whisky.

      The plot is simple. Somebody has locked the keys to the bar inside the bar and a big game is about to start on television. The tip of a fly rod appears through the window, a fly is cast which deftly hooks into the key ring, the keys are retrieved to loud applause and the punch line - delivered in a strong Scottish accent – is: Give that man a Bells!

      Well, I certainly raise my glass to Tim’s eBook on fly tying and he is imminently qualified to produce it, not only is he an exceptional caster but equally brings the same pragmatic approach to tying neat and effective fly patterns..

      The 1992 issue of the Cape Piscatorial Society’s annual journal, Piscator, records that Tim won the Society’s Fly Tyer of the Year award and, in 2008 he published, Learn to Fly-Cast in a Weekend, one of the best books on the subject I have read.

      The publisher’s note said: Tim Rolston has been fishing since the age of three and taught himself

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