{"id":53,"date":"2013-04-13T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T08:41:16","slug":"the-fly-tiers-benchside-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2013\/04\/the-fly-tiers-benchside-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTitle<\/strong>: \u00a0The Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference
\nAuthor<\/strong>: Ted Leeson<\/a>, Jim Schollmeyer<\/a>
\nISBN-10:<\/strong>\u00a01571881263
\nISBN-13<\/strong>:\u00a0978-1571881267
\nPages<\/strong>: 444
\nFor me this is the<\/em> reference book that I keep on my desk: this is not about patterns, discussions about what to tie for different species or rambling about non-essential things, but to the point descriptions about specific techniques that you need for achieving the best result. Each technique is presented short, but with a very clear description accompanied with pictures for that specific part of the fly. In addition to the main explanation that has pictures with blue background there are also alternate steps (for achieving the same result) on some of the techniques to show how it can be done with a different approach.<\/p>\n

I use this book as a reference when tying (very good when looking at online videos where quality is not that good all the time) and for sitting down and learning new techniques – Just pick a section (Extended Bodies) and implement all the different techniques in a training session.<\/p>\n

The book contains 400+ tying methods presented with 3000+ color pictures, and have chapters like:<\/p>\n