Deceiving Trout
The Flytier's Art - An International Guide
by John Parsons
Flies tied by John Morton and Brian Hussey
Published by SeTo/Halcyon Publishing, Auckland, New Zealand

First published 1988

Size: 260mm x 190mm. 174pp. Numerous colour photographs. Many lineart drawings. Hard cover.

"History and diagrams of twenty-five internationally renowned fly patterns including: Greenwell's Glory, Muddler Minnow, Quill Gordon, Water Boatman, Pye's Sedge, Sawyer's Pheasant Tail, Coch y Bonddu, and Midge Pupa.

The art of deceiving trout has fascinated man for centuries. John Parsons has gathered his love of troutfishing, his fascination with the literature of the sport, and his writing and photography skills, into the making of this book on the 25 food-forms of trout and their imitation.

Superb examples of these 25 flies have been prepared by John Morton and Brian Hussey, leading exponents in the art of flytying - illustrated with full-colour photographs and step-by-step diagrams on how to tie them. This book will appeal, not only to the flytying enthusiast, but to everyone who fishes for trout with a fly."

 

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