Floating Flies and How to Dress Them

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them
AuthorFrederic M. Halford
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFly fishing
PublisherSampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; London
Publication date
April 1886
Publication placeEngland
Pages136
Followed byDry Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice (1889) 

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them - A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling with Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most Killing Patterns Together with a Few Hints to Dry-Fly Fishermen is a fly fishing book written by Frederic M. Halford published in London in April 1886 by Sampson Low. A deluxe edition (100 copies) on large paper sold out before publication and the trade edition of 500 nearly so.[1]

  1. ^ Hayter, Tony (2002). F.M. Halford and the Dry-Fly Revolution. London: Rober Hale. p. 110. ISBN 0-7090-6773-9.