Who Packed Your Parachute?

By Tim Rolston

A lot of fly tiers find parachute patterns troublesome to tie and lacking in durability on the water. Commercial patterns are notoriously fragile which has lead to many people not making the most of these very versatile and easy to fish flies. In this book there are instructions and discussions on what makes a better parachute fly. Details on which way to wind the thread, better post manufacture and even some intermediate steps for those who don't wish to entirely change the way they tie these flies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Rolston
• Release date: Jun 23, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458067272

Tim Rolston

I am an outdoorsman, not a computer boffin, or at least that was the picture when I started this a few years back. Since then I have become caught up with the advantages of electronic media. Steep learning curves continue, frustrations abound but out of that crucible have I think come some really worthwhile publications. How to Make your own fly fishing lanyard was the first and remains the most popular of all the titles. Plus it's free. Then "Who Packed your Parachute" an investigation into better ways to tie parachute flies followed.Still an experiment and free to anyone. Recently my book "Learn to Fly-cast in a Weekend" previously published in hard cover was converted to electronic format making it available to a far wider audience. It has received great reviews and then came the comprehensive and highly innovative "Essential Fly Tying Skills" book, which was previously only available on CD due to the file sizes has been made available for instant download. Now the genre has expanded further with "Guide Flies", with the same format of graphics, text and video clip links. I am still passionate about the outdoors, fly fishing and writing. I hope that you will enjoy the books and find them useful. I further hope that as I learn more there will be more titles with ever better content. Regards Tim

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Who Packed Your Parachute?

By Tim Rolston

Smashwords Edition

Rev 06.09.2012

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Copyright Tim Rolston 2010

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Cover design by Tim Rolston

Graphics by Tim Rolston

Also by Tim Rolston, :

Build your own Fly-Fishing Lanyard Smashwords

Learn to Fly-Cast in a Weekend excerpts Smashwords

Who Packed Your Parachute?

NEWLY REVISED WITH IMPROVED GRAPHICS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.

Better ways to tie more durable versions of these popular patterns.

Why parachutes?

A growing number of fly anglers rely on parachute flies more than the traditional Catskill or Halfordian styles that were the mainstay of dry fly designs for years. Many of the variations of dry flies were stuck on the idea that the standard dry fly style of cock hackle wound around perpendicular to the shank of the hook as a collar just behind the eye was the ultimate answer.

Sure there were