{"id":92,"date":"2013-04-27T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-04-27T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T08:27:44","slug":"tying-small-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2013\/04\/tying-small-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying Small Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tying-small-flies-ed-engle-hardcover-cover-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93\" alt=\"tying-small-flies-ed-engle-hardcover-cover-art\" src=\"http:\/\/dryfly.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tying-small-flies-ed-engle-hardcover-cover-art.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tying-small-flies-ed-engle-hardcover-cover-art.jpg 200w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tying-small-flies-ed-engle-hardcover-cover-art-162x210.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Title<\/strong>: \u00a0Tying Small Flies<br \/>\n<strong>Author<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ed-Engle\/e\/B001KIJIJU\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Ed Engle<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong>\u00a00811700828<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN-13<\/strong>:\u00a0978-0811700825<br \/>\n<strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<br \/>\n<strong>Pages<\/strong>: 240<\/p>\n<p>When I started tying flies the smallest I could comfortably was around a hook 18\/20, smaller than that and I could not get my hands around it. The challenge quickly came when I started to replicate a pattern from a #12 down to the smallest I had &#8211; the better controll I got on the smaller helped me tie the larger patterns, and I had a large set of sizes to choose from when it came to fishing them. Tying really small ( down to #32 ) was a good challenge to have, but there are not may sites that have patterns or are dedicated to the art of tying small flies.<\/p>\n<p>This book have short, but very well presented, starting chapters with a comparison of different hooks, threads and material. The notes on threads early on gives a good indication on the research done that I really appreciate. The rest of the book is divided into various chapters on midge larvae, olives, tiny parachutes, tricos, floating nymphs and even a chapter dedicated to #32 flies in the end. There are SBS on different patterns, but also discussions and notes on different material, experience with the different patterns and methods in-between. A book that can be read straight through, or just as a lookup for when you need inspiration on a specific pattern when you start tying those sub #20 flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: \u00a0Tying Small Flies Author: Ed Engle ISBN-10:\u00a00811700828 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0811700825 Published: 2003 Pages: 240 When I started tying flies the smallest I could comfortably was around a hook 18\/20, smaller than that and I could not get my hands around it.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,13,12],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-ed-engle","tag-small-flies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}