Wet Flies: Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Flymphs, Winged Wets, and All-Fur Wet Flies

by Dave Hughes

Dave Hughes has long believed that wet flies have an essential place in everyone's fly box and repertoire of trout tactics. That's why he has updated this 1995 classic with the benefit of the last two decades of developments in materials, tying, and fishing techniques.

Instructions for making over 60 soft-hackled flies, flymphs, winged wets, and all-fur wet flies13,000 copies sold in hardcover

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811716244
• ISBN13: 9780811716246
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Textbook

This is really a nice textbook that you would find in a college book store for your classes. Author describes wet flies: its history, how to tie them, and how to fish with them. I DO recommend author's other publication: Trout Flies. This also describes the depth of fly-tying and how to fish with them.

A brave new old world

I have only recently starting flyfishing and am in process of learning with dries. Picked up this book in an effort to understand one more aspect of this wonderful sport. Dave Hughes has done an outstanding job whetting my appetite for fishing with soft-hackles, winged and wingless wets (flymphs, I love that word!) and fuzzy nymphs. The respect he has for those who opened his eyes to this area of the sport comes through in the elegant and simple manner in which he explains the material. This is clear, practical, and a whole lot of fun. Terrific!

Excellent reference

Hughes' writing is clear and concise. His distillation of work by earlier writers on the subject is lively. It appears to me that he is generous in acknowledging the innovations and achievements of others including his own contemporaries. But this is more than a well-researched history by a modern practitioner. Hughes' own contribution is the convincing and clear demonstration of some tying techniques that I now use in my basic repertoire. The colour plates are clear and well organized, and the advice, as usual, is worth taking seriously.

Wet Flies : Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackles, Winged and Wingl

This is THE essential book on soft hackled, wet and nymph flies for fishing. If you go after fish by fishing flies below the surface, this is THE reference book to have. Good instructions and photographs throughout with color plates of the flies covered in the book.

A fine read...

This is an excellent accompaniment for Nemes and Liesenring readers...Dave Hughes is an excellent writer and educator!...The stories are entertaining and the message is clear...If you're a dryfly flyfisherman, you should read this book...It will change the way you look at your favorite hobby...