illustrated with twelve color plates (depicting 164 streamers and bucktails), twenty-five pencil drawings by Bill Elliott, twenty pen-and-ink drawings by Milton C. Weiler. From the book: Of all the artificial flies anglers collect, dress, trade, treasure, and use; wets, dries, nymphs, and streamers, only one type hooks more and bigger fish consistently all season through in both fresh and salt water. This is the type intended to represent bait fish, streamers and bucktails, often called "the big fish flies, " because they are the meat and potatoes in the the larders of trophy and near-trophy tackle busters everywhere, worldwide, in lakes, rivers, ponds, oceans, estuaries, and bays, wherever big fish are found. These are what this book details, how to choose and use streamers and bucktails under all conditions, and how to distinguish correct ones from those which might politely be termed "variations"