Western Trout Fly Tying Manual: Volume II. [Deluxe Edition].
by Jack Dennis
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Citrus Heights, California, United States
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About This Item
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Snake River Books. 1980. Volume 11: 320 pp. 4to. (11 x 9). Deluxe Edition. One of 500 copies published. This copy inscribed and signed by Jack Dennis with a fly dressed by him (a Mormon Girl) mounted on the dedication page. Illustrated color frontispiece. Color plates. Step-by-step black and white tying instructional photos. This book is a fundamental reference for fly fishers who angle in the West. Laid-in this volume is correspondence between a former owner of the book and Jack Dennis. In his letter the former owner complains about the mounted fly dressed by Mr. Dennis, a Mormon Girl. He points out the fly was not dressed using golden pheasant neck feathers for the tail, as called for in the original dressing. A brief letter in response from Jack Dennis apologizes for the misstep and the original pattern using golden pheasant feathers was mounted in a new copy of the book and sent back to the owner. (Are fly fishers not some of the most picayune folks on earth?) The book is bound in half brown leather with gilt titles on the spine and cream sail cloth covers. Faint traces of a paper clip shadow on the dedication page. A nice book. Near fine..
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- Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books (US)
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- 009472
- Title
- Western Trout Fly Tying Manual: Volume II. [Deluxe Edition].
- Author
- Jack Dennis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
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About the Seller
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
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Citrus Heights, California
About Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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