In this authentic and carefully compiled work by Roy Patrick, the author presents all the details of the fascinating art of fly tying in a new and intriguing manner. Having known the author for many years, having used many of his excellent patterns, and appreciating the painstaking work which has gone into his continual research in every angle of the art, I cannot recommend this book too highly.

"TIE YOUR OWN FLIES" is both a primer and finished treatise for the beginner, and a most useful book of reference for the experienced angler who is already "tying his own." The arrangement is novel in that the various sections are presented as lessons, rather than in conventional chapter form. Thus, in Lesson 1, you want to tie a Grey Hackle: here's everything listed in order, and just how to use it. The novice should turn out a good fly with little practice, with this page before him.

Here is a comparatively simple fly, a good start. Progressing through the later lessons you come to the more difficult patterns of every type, wet and dry flies, nymphs, and many variations, such as use of the attractive Jungle Cock cheeks to add color and flash to certain wet flies.

The information contained in this work will serve for fly tyers everywhere, since proven patterns will take trout on a western stream or Rocky Mountain lake, just as they will in the streams of the Catskills —or in New Zealand. And the author's long experience on western waters enables him to present the killing patterns we find so admirable for steelhead, salmon and all the trouts in the West Coast rivers. Here have been originated many "new" patterns.

The discussion of various hooks and types in the Appendix will prove most valuable for novice and old timer alike. In Part 3, the discussion of leaders and how to make them, with the relation of leader to line size, and the like, will iron out knotty problems affecting this most important part of the fly man's terminal tackle.

Surely this work, coming from a man who has simply "lived" fly fishing and tied thousands of patterns the past 15 years, who has taught fly tying to 800 students for 12 years, and has for the last six years been running down authentic fly patterns in compiling a book "Pacific-Northwest Fly Patterns," for the western angler, should be in a position to tell us "all there is to know about the charming business of "tying your own."

Eighteen months of hard work have gone into this new book, after years of study, research—and fishing! It will undoubtedly fill a long-felt need as a complete and practical treatise on the art. And for the "non-tying" angler it will occupy an important place in his library as a reference work.

To Roy Patrick, my heartiest congratulations. To my brothers of the singing reel, everywhere, GOOD FISHING.

CLAUDE M. KREIDER

Long Beach, Calif.

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