Dick Talleur
1830-701 Seaside Road
Sunset Beach , NC 28468
Phone: 910-575-4538
Email: syomga@atmc.net
Bio: Born: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 11-20-31 Worked: AT&T most of adult life until retirement in 1984; freelance writer, photographer, speaker and teacher of fly fishing and fly tying since then. Fished: Since I was a kid in rural Dutchess County, east of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.. Got into "serious" trout-fishing circa 1953 [worms & minnows]. Started fly-fishing in 1955 [badly]. Started tying flies in 1959 [clumsily]. Decided to stick with The sport anyway, thus wasting my life [joyously]. Apologies to my parents, who expected more and deserved better, likewise to my former wife, and also a black kid named Wilson Duke, to whom I sold my chance to become President for a quarter in 1942. In recent years, fly fishing has taken me from Alaska`s trout and salmon wonderland to Iceland`s geysers and glaciers to England`s legendary chalk streams to Ireland`s enchanted rivers to Russia`s Kola Peninsula, where Atlantic salmon abound. Montana has become a sort of second home. I`ve also spent a couple of weeks in New Zealand. Books: I`ve authored: Mastering The Art Of Fly Tying, Stackpole Books, 1979; The Fly-Tyer`s Primer, Lyons & Burford, 1986; Fly Fishing For Trout, Winchester Press, 1987, this being a complete revision of my 1974 book with a similar title; The Versatile Fly Tyer, a comprehensive, advanced-level fly tying book released in April, 1990 by Lyons & Burford; Talleur`s Dry Fly Handbook, Lyons & Burford, March, 1992; Modern Fly-Tying Materials, which appeared in early spring, 1995. A full-color, completely-revised edition of The Fly-Tyer`s Primer named Talleur`s Basic Fly Tying was published in 1997. The L.L. Bean Fly Tying Handbook, Lyons Press, 1998; Pretty And Practical Salmon Flies, Abenaki Publishers, 1999; and Guide To Fly Tying, a full-color, updated replacement for Mastering The Art Of Fly Tying Stackpole Books, 2000. My latest book, Inside Fly Tying, also with Stackpole, was released in July, 2004. I also have produced fourteen video`s and one DVD on fly-tying with Jim and Kelly Watt of Flyfishing Video Magazine.
Narrative: I`ve done a lot of freelance writing for various magazines, including Fly Fish New England, Adirondack Life, Fly Fisherman, and Fly Rod & Reel magazines, and currently have regular columns in American Angler and Fly Tyer magazines. I`ve had probably ten thousand of my photographs published. I also do angling-related slide programs and teach fly tying and fishing all over the U.S.A., Canada, England, Scandinavia, and Russia. In addition, I was featured in a 2 hour television segment about Atlantic salmon fishing in Russia, which has been aired on ESPN on Jerry McKinnis` Fishin` Hole numerous times. In 1993, I managed a salmon-fishing program in Russia on the Pana/Varzuga river system, and in 1996 and 1997, I managed another such program on the Yokanga, another magnificent Russian salmon river, the Yokanga. I speak Russian, am married to a beautiful Russian lady named Vera, and have a 21-year-old step-son named Yuri Kovalenko.
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