Setting the stage : Talleur's tying tips -- Getting inside the dry fly : hackle selection -- The up-chuck : a wulff-style dry fly -- The Cahill quill : wood duck wings and stripped quill bodies -- Red quill and quill Gordon : more wood duck wings and peacock quill bodies -- The flat-hackled parachutes : the klinkhamer -- The monitor : a foam-post parachute -- The e-foam-erella : the parachute as a spinner -- The woodstock : an unkempt yet effective parachute -- The winnie boy streamer and Uncle Dickie's dace : two imitative streamers -- The mallard heron : a novel streamer design -- The joys of uni-stretch : a simple, semirealistic stonefly nymph -- More joys of uni-stretch : the spey fly lives! -- Marla and the jailbird : a very simple and simply great pattern -- The Hewitt skater and the variant : huge dry flies -- A troublesome task made easy : gel thread and spinning deer hair -- Sim's seducer and the brahma sutra : coq de leon and brahma feathers.