Masters of Flytying
No 3. in the Fish & Game
New Zealand Collection
Paper Back, 145mm x 220mm
Published 2005
124 Pages, 45 Colour Photo's
Weight: 340gms
Masters of Flytying is, as the name suggests, a book about tying flies. It calls on the experience of three of the best in the world at this craft - Ngongotaha's Hugh McDowell, Turangi's Peter Church and Murchisons's Peter Carty. This intrepid trio have combined over the last 13½ years and 72 issues of Fish & Game New Zealand magazine to produce a regular Master of Tying column which is devoured by many of the more than 200,000 enthusiasts who read this publication and who have fallen to the rather innocuous but esoteric art that is creating your own flies.
McDowell has had his flies featured in Patterns of the Masters, The Art of the Trout Fly and Fly Patterns and Complete Guide to NZ Trout Lures. He is author of a book New Zealand Fly-Tying.
Church is a universally respected angler, guide and tier, once ranked by an elite American flyfishing magazine as one of the top five guides in the world.
Carty, the only of the three still guiding fulltime is recognised as one of the world's premier contemporary flytiers, having been published in John Roberts' book World's Best Trout Flies. Carty is also one of Umpqua Feather Merchants flytying consultants, having developed a host of patterns used internationally, among them Carty's Coloburiscus, Carty's Passion Vine Hopper, Carty's Onisigaster Nymph, The Mountain Mayfly and Carty's Stonefly. McDowall, Church and Carty combine to present the background, material and tying instructions for 23 different patterns, all of which are proven trout catchers in New Zealand.
