This book shows you how to tie the world's most popular dry flies with speed, ease and efficiency. Tie like the pros-learn the commercial techniques and triple your enjoyment. Tying instruction is presented in a fun and easy to understand manner. over 800 concise macro color photos take you, step by step, through 26 demonstration patterns that are presented in a logical learning sequence. These patterns encompass all major adult foods of trout, including: mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, damselflies, midges, and terrestrials. Tying Dry Flies also offers fishing tips, interesting angling experiences of the author, a wealth of entomological and historical information, and beautiful angling art and illustrated tying instructions by Mike Stidham. Randall Kaufmann is one of the leading experts on flies, fly fishing, and fly tying. His innovative and unique tying techniques have helped set the standard for commercial tying operations. Randall has authored several books and is co-owner of Kaufmann's Streamborn, Inc. a fly fishing mail order house with stores in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, and Tigard, Oregon.