Gretchen & Al Beatty

The Humpy Encyclopedia Gretchen & Al Beatty

If you consider tying the fly an exercise in frustration, then this is the book for you. The authors teach patterns tied with hair, synthetic materials, or combinations of both. They detail more than a dozen ways to tie this fly (actually it's 15 but who's counting). Somewhere in that assortment of tying methods, you'll find a really easy, fish-catching version you too can enjoy tying. The authors tie the all hair version as part of their day-to-day work but that isn't the pattern they use for their own fishing. You'll find the answer to their favorite versions in Chapters 10 & 11. If you want to remove the construction mystery from the Hump, The Humpy Encyclopedia is for you!