The Fly Tying Artist

A collection of Rick Takahashi’s most effective fly designs, this book emphasizes Rick’s background in color and design theory and shares tying tips and fishing methods. Rick’s artistic flies cover the range of trout fly design possibilities and major food groups, and the book includes tying steps and the stories behind the flies.

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A collection of Rick Takahashi’s most effective fly designs, this book emphasizes Rick’s background in art (color and design theory) as well as share tying tips and fishing methods. Takahashi was the primary author of Modern Midges and Modern Terrestrials and while recipes for his flies were included in these books, the tying steps and stories behind them were not. Flies included in the book will cover the range of trout fly design possibilities and the major food groups.