25 nymphs, including caddis, mayfly, stonefly, damselfly, midge, and shrimp and scud patterns. 18 represented in their full life cycles.

A detailed survey of the history and use of wet flies, with information on the insects they reassemble, fishing techniques and tying instructions.

Dave Hughes has long believed that wet flies have an essential place in everyone's fly box and repertoire of trout tactics. That's why he has updated this 1995

Everyone who casts flies for trout, whether eastern browns or western steelhead, has a favourite system, and it's hard to get a fly fisherman to change his ways