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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: DRAKES AND LARGE DUNS
VIDEO VENTURES
Best demonstrates his individually researched & developed techniques that he uses when tying these larger imitations. He says the patterns he has chosen to share will bring up every trout in the stream, from the biggest & wisest to the smallest & dumbest. Of all the drake & larger duns that he ties, he has selected these to be among the most fun to tie. 100 min.
'* Quickly locating individual patterns
* High quality digital mastering
* Improved still-frames
Best demonstrates his individually researched & developed techniques that he uses when tying these larger imitations. He says the patterns he has chosen to share will bring up every trout in the stream, from the biggest & wisest to the smallest & dumbest. Of all the drake & larger duns that he ties, he has selected these to be among the most fun to tie.
PATTERNS INCLUDED:
* Green Drake Dubbed Medium
* Gordon/Hendrickson Biot Dun
* Gordon/Hendrickson Spinner
* Eastern March Brown Biot Dun
* Western March Brown Biot Dun
* Biot Green Drake -- Hair Wing
* Biot Green Drake
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23.40 USD
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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: MAYFLIES (MEDIUM SIZE)
VIDEO VENTURES
When mayflies begin to hatch on your favorite stream, you'd be well advised to have a few of these in your fly box. Pay special attention to the Myster Fly & A.K.'s affinity toward it! A.K.'s original ideas. 100 min.
'* Quickly locating individual patterns
* High quality digital mastering
* Improved still-frames
When mayflies begin to hatch on your favorite stream, you'd be well advised to have a few of these in your fly box. In this DVD, A.I. selects some of his favorite "fish catching" medium size duns-each pattern with it's own special appeal. For anyone who knows A.K., they realize that he has original ideas & he incorporates them in tying these paperns. (Pay special attention to the Myster Fly & A.K.'s affinity toward it!)
PATTERNS INCLUDED:
* Callibaetis Quill Dun
* Callibaetis Quill Spinner
* Red Quill Dun
* Mellon Quill Dun
* Pale Morning Dun Quill
* Olive Quill Dun
* Mystery Fly
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23.40 USD
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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: TYING BIOT DUN & MELON QUILL
VIDEO VENTURES VHS
Internationally known fly tier A. K. Best brings over 33 years of professional tying experience to the viewer in this series of expertly produced videos. From beginning tips to hard-gained tricks, each tape covers a particular type or series of patterns & is easy to follow from & learn. VHS, 60 min.
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15.60 USD
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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: TYING NYMPHS
VIDEO VENTURES
Internationally known fly tier A. K. Best brings over 33 years of professional tying experience to the viewer in this series of expertly produced videos. From beginning tips to hard-gained tricks, each tape covers a particular type or series of patterns & is easy to follow from & learn. 60 min.
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23.40 USD
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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: TYING STREAMERS
VIDEO VENTURES
This set of streamers utilizes techniques for tying nearly all streamer flies - from selecting materials to their placement of the hook. These are flies no serious fly fisher should be without. When trout aren't taking dry flies on the surface, & not eating nymphs under the surface, often you can get them out of the rocks with these streamers; works well for bass too. 100 min.
'* Quickly locating individual patterns
* High quality digital mastering
* Improved still-frames
This set of streamers utilizes techniques for tying nearly all streamer flies - from selecting materials to their placement of the hook. These are flies no serious fly fisher should be without. When trout aren't taking dry flies on the surface, & not eating nymphs under the surface, often you can get them out of the rocks with these streamers; work well for bass too.
PATTERNS INCLUDED:
* Black Nose Dace
* Matuka
* Mickey Finn
* Muddler
* Spruce Fly
* Wooly Bugger
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23.40 USD
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A. K. Best A. K. BEST: TYING TERRESTRIALS, CADDIS & MIDGES
VIDEO VENTURES
Internatioally known fly tier A. K. Best brings over 33 years of professional tying experience to the viewer in this series of expertly produced videos. From beginning tips to hard-gained tricks, each tape covers a particular type or series of patterns & is easy to follow from & learn. DVD.
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23.40 USD
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A. K. Best A. K.'S FLY BOX: HOW TO TIE THE MASTER FLY TYER'S PATTERNS
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS 159228955X / 9781592289554 Paperback BOOK
Describes 90 patterns, illustrated in more then 200 color photos with complete step-by-step tying instructions from a man who claims not to be comfortable about tying a pattern until he's tied a hundred dozen of them. A.K. has fished each of these patterns for at least 6 years, many as much as 25 years, continually refining the patterns to make them easier to tie, more durable & more effective at fooling trout. Full color, 200 color photos; 7x9 inches, 224 pgs.
'' A look into the fly box of a legendary fly tyer
' Complete step-by-step tying instructions
' Full-color photographs throughout
Fly tying, the foundation of a major sport, is also an art form. And the Picasso of fly tying is A. K. Best. A. K. Best's Fly Box includes more than 200 full-color illustrations depicting naturals and their highly developed imitations, all of which have been used and refined by A. K. himself over many years.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"I learned most of twhat I know now and use about fly tying from my old friend A. K. Best." -John Gierach
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A. K. Best's books on fly tying are modern classics. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and appears regularly in John Gierach's popular fishing adventures.
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19.50 USD
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A. K. Best A.K. BEST'S ADVANCED FLY TYING: THE PROVEN METHODS & TECHNIQUES OF A MASTER PROFESSIONAL FLY TYER - 37 IMPORTANT PATTERNS
GLOBE PEQUOT ( THE LYONS PRESS 1592289568 / 9781592289561 Hardcover BOOK
A fully illustrated guide to tying superior flies. Realizes every fly angler?s secret fantasy?to get a good, close, detailed look inside the fly boxes of a master tyer & fisherman. From the systematic choice of patterns to the explanations of fly design to the rationales for materials, it's all here. Introduction by John Gierach. Full color; 17x9 inches, 248 pgs.
'In his fourth book on the subject, author A. K. Best offers a thoughtful interpretation of advanced techniques for tying trout flies. In A. K. Best's Advanced Fly Tying, A. K. discusses tools, materials, and methods
in elaborate detail, and the resulting fly patterns 'may, in the right hands, fool a few more trout,' according to John Gierach's introduction.
' Hundreds of tips about the most effective materials and techniques
' Insights about why some flies work better than others
' Full-color photographs throughout
Just as no two musicians will perform the same composition in an identical manner, fly tyers will use different techniques for tying the same fly pattern,' says A.K. Best in the introduction to his latest book. Advanced Fly Tying thus offers the author's 'interpretation' of how to apply advanced techniques for tying trout flies. Since Best has been teaching fly tying for 20 years, it's hard to imagine an angler who wouldn't benefit from this book, which discusses:
How to choose a hair stacker, make dubbing needles, and sharpen scissors
- Why you may need a rotary vise
- How to tie Organza Spinner Wings, Magic Midge Larvae, Winged Bronze Beetles, Floating Hare's Ear Nymphs, and more.
- How to field dress flies to ensure a catch
- Why the head is the most important part of any fly
With color photographs to illustrate each point, Advanced Fly Tying will be a treasured addition to any fly fisherman's library.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
From the Introduction to A.K.Best's Advanced Fly Tying
"A.K.'s tying instructions come from long experience as a professional fly tyer (a job where time really is money), but that's not all of it. Plenty of people are very good at something, but few are so acutely aware of what they're doing, how they do it, and why, and almost none are able to explain it clearly. A. K. is among the best fly tyers I've ever seen, and is the best instructor." - John Gierach, from the Introduction to A. K. Best's Advanced Fly Tying
Praise for A.K.'s Fly Box:
'A. K. is one of the truly great tyers of our age. Because of his vast experience with trout, he has altered the way some favorite patterns are tied. Tie the flies the way he teaches in the book and use his advice for fishing them and you'll take more fish. That's a promise!''Lefty Kreh
'This book realized every fly angler's secret fantasy'to get a good, close, detailed look inside the fly boxes of a master tyer and fisherman. From the systematic choice of patterns to the explanations of fly design to the rationales for materials, this is sterling stuff. Few tyers are as outspoken and iconoclastic as A. K. Best. And few are right as often.''Ted Leeson, author of The Habit of Rivers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A.K. Best is a professional fly tyer of international stature, a manufacturer of custom fly-tying tools, and an ardent admirer of cane fly rods. He has tied flies and fly fished for more than 35 years. His patterns have been featured in many national fly-fishing magazines including Fly Tyer. His book A.K's Fly Box is considered a classic. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and appears regularly in John Gierach's popular fishing adventures.
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29.90 USD
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A.K. Best FLY FISHING WITH A.K.
STACKPOLE BOOKS 0811701344 / 9780811701341 Hardcover BOOK
Insight into a wealth of fishing experience from one of the most well-known fly fishers in the sport today. Covers gear & tackle, fly selection, casting, setting the hook, playing & releasing the fish, float fishing. 59 color photos, 8 illus; 6x9 inches, 136 pgs.
'* Covers gear and tackle, fly selection, casting, setting the hook, playing and releasing the fish, float fishing
* Insight into a wealth of fishing experience from one of the most well-known fly fishers in the sport today
* Illustrations by Dave Hall and photos by John Gierach
Through his accounts on the water, author A. K. Best shares his lifetime of fly-fishing experience. 'I have always thought that going fly fishing simply meant that you drove to the stream, strung up your rod, tied on a fly, looked for a rising trout, and then cast to it until you caught it. It does work out that way sometimes and it's a lot of fun. But other times, it gets a little more complicated and that's even more fun.' It's these complications that A. K. deals with, untangles, and explains in his first book devoted to fishing.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
'The luckiest fishermen I know all had mentors. A. K. had the legendary and elusive Koke Winter; I had A. K. What he taught me--mostly by example over decades of fishing and traveling together--was the workmanlike attention to detail it takes to catch fish, as well as the good-hearted humor it takes to be okay when you don't.
This book was written in that spirit. The tactics, techniques, and opinions here are immanently practical. They don't reflect hours of thinking about fishing, but decades of actual fishing, in hundreds of rivers in all kinds of conditions from good to bad to indifferent. This is a fishing book by a guy who really knows how to catch fish.' --John Gierach
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A. K. Best is author of Production Fly Tying, A. K.'s Fly Box, and Advanced Fly Tying. A professional fly tier, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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20.80 USD
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A.K. Best FLY TYING WITH A.K. - PATTERNS & PROBLEM SOLVING WITH NEW MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES
STACKPOLE BOOKS 0811703754 / 9780811703758 Paperback BOOK
These tips & techniques from master fly tier A. K. Best help you meet the challenges of today?s new tying materials. Part 1 addresses several common tying problems & gives solutions that every tier can use. Part 2 describes new materials & patterns, explains how they differ from traditional materials, & what that means for today?s fisherman. 314 color photos; 8.5x11 inches, 132 pgs.
'Techniques and tips from A. K.:
*The right way to hold a bobbin
*Preventing body bumps
*Avoiding trapped hackles
*Producing crisper hairwings and tails
*Dubbing fine bodies
*Saltwater tips
Tying fly patterns using new materials:
*Bugskip Nymph
*Blue Quill Dun
*Mahogany Quill Spinner
*Hovering Fy Crane
*Coq de Leon Matuka
These tips and techniques from master fly tier A. K. Best help you meet the challenges of today's new tying materials. Part One addresses several common tying problems and gives solutions that every tier can use. Part Two describes new materials and patterns, explains how they differ from traditional materials, and what that means for today's fisherman.
A. K.'s signature Quill Body flies take on new life when tied according to his directions using these new materials. Detailed photographs illustrate the step-by-step instructions for working with Bugskin, Coq de Leon, and streamers. With this book on new materials, new techniques, and new patterns, A. K. once again demonstrates his expertise as a tier and as a teacher.
About the Author:
A. K. Best is the author of Fly Fishing with A. K., Production Fly Tying, A. K.'s Fly Box, and Advanced Fly Tying. He writes about fly fishing and fly tying for Fly Rod and Reel, Fly Fisherman, and Fly Tyer. He lectures and teaches across the United States from his home in Boulder, Colorado.
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26.00 USD
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A.K. Best, Shane Stalcup, Brad Befus PARACHUTES AND SPINNERS (AND A DUN)
VIDEO VENTURES
Chance to compare examples of how different professional fly tyers tie spinners & parachutes. Compare interesting techniques! Contains some of the tyers' favorite patterns. 97 min.
'* Quickly locating individual patterns
* High quality digital mastering
* Improved still-frames
Tnis is every tyer's chance to compare examples of how different professional fly tyers tie spinners & parachutes. Compare interesting techniques by such highly regarded fly tyers, authors and lectures as A.K. Best, Shane Stalcup, & Brad Befus. The DVD contains some of the tyers' favorite patterns, and demonstrates their indivdual technique in tying popular imitations.
PATTERNS INCLUDED:
& Gordon/Hendrickson Spinner
* Red Quill Spinner
* Olive Quill Dun Parachute
* Trico Dun
* Trico Parachute
* CDC Parachute Midge Larva
* CDC Parachute Emerger
* Parachute Baetis Emerger
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23.40 USD
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A.K. Best with introduction by John Gierach PRODUCTION FLY TYING: SECOND EDITION
PRUETT PUB CO. 0871089297 / 9780871089298 Paperback BOOK
Excerpt
Make fly tying easier & more efficient with this eagerly awaited for second edition. Fly-tying authority & veteran A.K. Best reveals concise & comprehensive instructions gleaned from thousands of hours behind the vise. This expanded edition to tying techniques, tool, & materials includes: superb photos, tried-&-true, time-saving tips, & chapters organized by tails, ribbing, bodies, wings, & hackles. 299 color photos; 10x9 inches, 160 pgs.
''' 299 superb four-color photographs
' tried-and-true, time saving tips
' chapters organized by tails, ribbing, bodies, wings, and hackles
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29.90 USD
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