The Feather Mechanic 2 – Gordon van der Spuy

It you have the first publication you will appreciate the quality and content of Gordons books.

Easy to read and full of information, tips, colour pictures and brilliant drawings for the fly tyier and angler.

Press release June2023 Gordon van der Spuy:

We live in a world that is hooked on a drug called instant gratification. Were the McDonalds generation. We want things to be quick and we dont want to expend too much energy obtaining them either. Tyers are no different. Post a photo of a nice nymph on Facebook or Instagram and the almost immediate response will be pattern please or video please, as if patterns and videos are all you need to successfully tie the fly.

What is sorely lacking in todays society is the concept of some form of a cognitive thought process. Sure you can tie by numbers as it were, but that will always be limiting or even restrictive. The path to fly tying enlightenment it would seem lies in understanding the logic behind what makes effective flies effective. To do this you need to get to grips with the details. And dont confuse the idea that detail means complexity. At their heart, the most important details are simple. And theres endless inspiration in that.

In The Feather Mechanic II we go on a fly tying journey with some of the best tyers on the planet. They take us through their thought processes behind the patterns they write about and unpack the details behind what makes these flies the killer fishing tools that they are. The book is pregnant with illustrations because a picture paints a thousand words. With over 200 hand drawn pictures thats a book jam packed with fly-tying goodness.

Includes chapters by: Wayne Luallen, Vladimir Petrovic, Daniel Duane, Walter Reisinger, Hans van Klinken, Tim Rolston, Luis Meana Baeza, Umberto Oreglini, Jay Lee, Davy Wotton, Marcelo Morales, Jonathan Antunez, Mike Lawson, Leon Links, Barry Ord Clarke, Michael Olesen, Steven Fernandez

Soft Cover : 236 pages

Compiled and illustrated by: Gordon van der Spuy