More than fit to be tied

Trout don’t have a chance anymore. Fly-fishing pros Jim Schollmeyer and Ted Leeson have teamed up to produce the definitive work on how to tie flies that could fool a fly. Those picky trout that reject our flies with the flip of a fin should now swim in fear of these well-researched and beautiful pages.

The book details basic and advanced tying techniques, dispensing advice on handling those wild cul de canard hackles and foot hairs from snowshoe hares, and providing directions for quill wrapping and variations on shucks. It offers more than 300 of the experts’ deadliest emerger patterns. Dozens of photos show just how it’s done by the masters.

Pattern selection is startling in its variety here, from Jim Leisenring’s vintage Hare’s Ear Flymph and the classic British Partridge and Green to the inventive flies of Jack Gartside, cabdriver and renegade fly designer. There is also the weird -- such as the radical umbrella and parasol ties.

Fickle trout won’t be flipping those fins anymore.

-- Darrell Kunitomi