See if you get get the CD version of the Art of Fly tying to complement the book. It is filled with movie clips showing each of the important skills. There is nothing like seeing someone do it.

In fact, that would be a great project to follow up the Benchside Reference: A DVD filled with Quicktime or WAV video clips illustrating each technique. I have found that it is often very subtle things done by a tier that make all of the difference. These are difficult to illustrate in a book.

I have digitized all of my fly fishing videos into Quicktime clips so I can watch them on my computer. It makes them much more useful.


Tom Davenport


On Feb 7, 2004, at 10:06 AM, J&A Burbank wrote:

Dan,
�I will second you on the Art of Fly Tying, it's the book I learned to tie from. Another one that would be good is Fly tying made clear and simple by Skip Morris.

Jim
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I've been�asked to recommend a book for beginners on Fly Tying for a small local library. My favorites are The Art Of Fly Tying by John Vliet.� or The Complete Book of Fly Tying by Eric Leiser. Does anyone have any other favorites. Dan

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