I hope I'm not cheesing anyone off, but I'm posting this to a couple of groups because I think they're so cool:
found a couple of cool books at a second hand book store the other day. I've attached a picture of the cover of one: The Family Cirlce Book of Fly Patterns. Family Circle!? I guess these are recipes. Maybe the magazine was different in 1961, when this book was put out. It has many recipes and pictures of flies that have fallen out of the picture over the years, and pictures of some that are a bit different these days. I can scan in some of the pictures if anyone is interested. The other book is by George Leonard Herter. That's the same Herters that some of us old folks may remember as the major supplier of outdoor products in our youth. The title is "Professional Fly Tying Manual," and it sold for $1.00 in 1951, when it was written. According to the fly leaf, "more copies have been sold of this book in the world ever written about fly tying, or fly fishing, or any sporting subject." Fourteen editions of this book were published. There are some really obscure flies in this one, although Mr. Herter advocates the use of the most up to date materials available, including sponge rubber, flexible plastic and gum rubber for extended bodies. Herters produced its own flexible plastic fly body material. Herters also produced a modable plastic for casting bug bodies and rubber worms. The Fly Tying Manual is very densely written with black and white illustrations. It covers every type of fly, streamer and bucktail, including nymphs (very realistic ones) and Atlantic Salmon flies. It's hard reading actually, but very complete for such a small book. I can send some pictures from this too. I don't know at what point scans would become a copywrite infringement, so I'm going conservative on this. Steve, In Maryland --- Steve, In Maryland ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005
