Al Beatty

Al Beatty is the proprietor of BT's Fly Fishing Products, with his wife, Gretchen, in Boise, ID. A frequent contributor to "Fly Tyer" magazine, Beatty is a recognized authority on trout flies in the fly-fishing and -tying circles of American. His two previous books are "Innovative Flies and Techniques "and "The Federation of Fly Fisher's Fly Pattern Encyclopedia. "A close friend of Gary LaFontaine, Beatty was attempting to produce LaFontaine's final film about fly fishing, but LaFontaine died...See more

Al Beatty is the proprietor of BT's Fly Fishing Products, with his wife, Gretchen, in Boise, ID. A frequent contributor to "Fly Tyer" magazine, Beatty is a recognized authority on trout flies in the fly-fishing and -tying circles of American. His two previous books are "Innovative Flies and Techniques "and "The Federation of Fly Fisher's Fly Pattern Encyclopedia. "A close friend of Gary LaFontaine, Beatty was attempting to produce LaFontaine's final film about fly fishing, but LaFontaine died before Beatty was able to finish the project. Yet out of that came the 26 posthumous fly patterns of this book that Beatty has tied and photographed himself. Beatty lives in Boise, ID. Gary LaFontaine published more than 100 articles on fly fishing in more than a dozen different national and regional publications during his professional fishing and writing career. He authored five books, most famously, "Caddisflies," and coauthored many more including "Fly Fishing the Yellowstone" (with Bob Jacklin) and "Fly Fishing the Madison" (with Craig Mathews), both Lyons titles. A ceaseless fly tyer who invented numerous patterns, some that bear his name, his patterns became standards of the craft. He died before his time, at age 54, in 2002. See less