The Classic Streamer Fly Box

Praise for The Founding Flies At every level of the angler/fly tier's age and experience, this book was needed. It is what we have been waiting for, had we but known...Valla weaves a complex and fascinating tapestry full of the wonders of American fly development, east and west. He shows us these tiers' important flies in a compelling visual dimension and, at the end of the book, gives surprisingly canny and helpful dressings for each of them...It's a book to be returned to and browsed again for its pleasures and the celebration of that most excellent of objects: the trout fly.--Gordon M. Wickstrom, American Fly Fisher Praise for The Founding Flies For the first time, as far as I know, Mike Valla has brought together in one place an account of the major developments in the ways in which artificial flies were thought about, tied, and fished in the United States over the period from the mid-1880s to the late 1960s... In its scope and depth, The Founding Flies stakes a broader claim for Valla as one of the country's leading historians of the art and craft of the artificial fly.--Bud Bynack, California Fly Fisher

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} Mike Valla is the Northeast field editor for Eastern Fly Fishing magazine and a recipient of the Poul Jorgensen Golden Hook Award. He is the author of The Founding Flies, Tying Catskill-Style Dry Flies, and Tying and Fishing Bucktails and Other Hair Wings, and has published articles in Fly Fisherman, Fly Tyer, and American Fly Fisher. He lives in Cambridge, New York.

Introduction All Orange Allie's Favourite American Smelt Art Neu Barnes Special Batternkill Shiner Beaverkill Bill's Dace Black and Yellow Bucktail Black Ghost Black Striped Minnow Bleeding Shiner Blue Devil Bornholdt Golden Squirrel Brook Silverside Brook Trout Brook's Honey Blonde Bumblepuppy Bumblepuppy (Christian Variation) Cains River Black Demon Cains River Rainbow Cains River Roaring Rapids Catskill Chief Needahbeh Coastal Shiner Colonel Bates Comely Shiner (Variation) Conger's Lassie Dr Oatman Edson Tiger, Dark Edson Tiger, Light Esopus Bucktail Fox's Black Optic Bucktail Fox's Brown Optic Bucktail (Poison) Fox's Yellow Optic Bucktail General MacArthur Ghost Shiner Golden Catskill Golden Darter (Original) Golden Darter (Variation) Golden Furnace Streamer Golden Smelt Golden Wilberding Goober Gray Ghost Green King Hoag Favourite Iron Colour Shiner Jack Cauchois (Variation) Jack Schwinn Jane Craig Keel-Red Squirrel Ken Lockwood Little Brook Trout Little Brown Trout Little Rainbow Trout Male Dave Mansfield Marabou, Black Marabou, Fox'sYellow Marabou, White Mickey Finn Missoulian Spook Mitchell Bucktail Muddler Minnow Multi-Wing Streamer Myers Point #1 Myers Point #2 Myers Point #3 Nine-Three Old-Fashioned Bucktail Owego Painter Param Belle Pink Lady Bucktail Pink Lady Streamer Pink Pup Plymouth Streamer Ray Arden Red and Yellow Bucktail Red Dog Bucktail Red Horse Red, White, Blue Sanders Schmidtmann-Valla Smelt Scott Special Shushan Postmaster Silver Darter (Oatman Original) Silver Darter (Variation) Southern Redbelly Dace Spencer Bay Special Spruce Supervisor Tail Light Shiner Thunder Creek Silver Shiner Warden's Worry Yellow and Brown Bucktail Yellow May Yellow Perch Fly Dressings Notes Pattern Index