Acquiring the skills of fly-tying provides the double enjoyment of mastering a creative art and then testing your creations as a practical means of ctaching fish: the fish, of course, will be perfectly objective critics of your efforts! This eminently practical guide to the art of fly dressing demonstrates that even the most beautiful and elaborate flies are created with the simplest and most inexpensive tools, and a modicum of common sense and patience. A vice, a sharp-pointed pair of scissors, hack pliers, a bare bodkin, some imagination - and this book - are all you need.