Joe Hard 0 Report post Posted April 6, 2007 I am looking for book titles for tying bucktail streamers. I am sure there are lots out there, some well known others that are not. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted April 6, 2007 forgotten flies - schmookler/sils streamer fly tying & fishing - bates thunder creek flies - fulsher modern streamer for trophy trout - linsenman/galloup streamer fly patterns for trolling and casting - martinek smelt fly patterns - wilson website http://www.rareandunusual.com/tcs.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bowfin47 0 Report post Posted April 7, 2007 Two classic bucktail books were written by Joseph D. Bates, "Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing", which came out in the mid '60's, and "STREAMER FLY FISHING IN FRESH AND SALT WATER", which came out in about 1948 or 1950. The earlier book is by far the better of the two. "STREAMER FLY FISHING IN FRESH AND SALT WATER" is a classic in every sence of the word. Every tyer should have a copy or at least spend a long week with this book. In the late 1940's, Bates took, as he called them, "classic bucktail streamers" and added bead chain eyes. He didn't "rename" these bucktail streamers, as he wrote that all he'd just come up with a was to add a little weight to classic patterns. When Tom Schmuecker of WAPSI invented and marketed lead dumbell eyes to replace Bate's beadchain eyes with a similar but much more functional material, it revolutionized "our" tying. Everyone was tying bucktails with lead eyes. WE all had and fished boxes full of "lead eyed bucktails". Then about a year and a half after Schmuecker's lead dumbbell eyes has been on the market, Lefty Kreh wrote an article which attributed this technique of adding lead dubbell eyes to bucktail streamers to his long time fishing buddy and the owner of his local shop. The rest is history... ah, "the power of the pen"! However, should we call them "Bucktails", as Bates did; "Schmuecker's", after the man that "reinvented" bucktails and made this technique possible for us all; or just follow Lefty's lead and call them "Clouser's"? If Joseph D. Bates were alive when dumbbell eye came out, I think we would be using different terminology today. PS I'm not knocking Lefty. He's great! Lefty just "helped" out a friend, which is something that Lefty has long been known for doing, and as Lefty's friend was and is a good guy, no one in the publishing trade questioned it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billb 0 Report post Posted April 9, 2007 Daryn: Three more -- -- "Streamers and Bucktails: The Big Fish Flies" -- Joe Bates, 1979 (Bate referred to it as "the winnowed augmentation" of "Streamer Fly Fishing in Fresh and Salt Water" and "Streamer Fly Tying & Fishing") -- "Hair Wing Atlantic Salmon Flies" -- Keith Fulsher and Charles Krom, 1981 -- "Newfoundland Salmon Flies ... and How to Tie Them" -- Len Rich, 1988 A lot of the hairwing salmon flies in the last two books use material other than deer tail, but it's in there nonetheless, and the books make for great reading. Bill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
