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After 'sweethearting' and love lyrics, he held the next best thing in the world to be fly-fishing, and he turned his intimate knowledge of this last subject to good account when he dated from St. Boswells Green in September 1839 his 'River Angling for Salmon and Trout, more particularly as practised in the Tweed and its Tributaries' (Edinburgh ...
John Bickerdyke, C. H. Cook, a prolific 19th-century angling author on coarse and sea fishing [11] Jock Scott, Donald Rudd, author of Greased Line Fishing for Salmon [12] John Chalkhill, Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler (1653) [1] John Trotandot, George P. R. Pulman, British author of Vade mecum of fly-fishing for trout (1841) and ...
Gierach, John (1990). Sex, Death and Fly Fishing. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671707388., For anyone who loves fly-fishing or is looking to begin, John Gierach offers an entertaining view of the sport. Written in a series of witty essays that are inspiring, humorous, and educational, this book will transport you to real rivers and lakes ...
In 2011, BookFinder.com announced that Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days was the 17th most sought-after out-of-print book worldwide. [10] In 2012, a bookshop in Tonbridge, Kent, was broken into by an intoxicated person who called the police and told them he was reading Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley. [11]
Gierach was the 1994 recipient of the US Federation of Fly Fishers Roderick Haig-Brown Award. The award recognizes a fly fishing author whose work embodies the philosophy and spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, particularly a respect for the ethics and traditions of fly fishing and an understanding of rivers, the inhabitants, and their environments. [19]
[1] [2] He wrote two works on fly-fishing (The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout, 1975, [3] and (with John Goddard) The Trout and the Fly, 1980). [4] His environmental novel The Stream (2000) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] was described by David Arnold-Forster, chief executive of English Nature , as "the most significant book of its kind that I have read since ...
A.K. Best is a production fly tyer, fly fisher, and angling writer.He was born in 1933 in Iowa and now lives in Colorado.He wrote for angling magazines like Fly Rod and Reel, Fly Fisherman, and Mid-Atlantic Fly Fishing Guide, and published several books on fly tying and fishing.
The Secrets of Angling was a book written by John Dennys. It was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, first published in 1613 in London. A didactic pastoral poem in 3 books, in the style of Virgil's Georgics. It was published in 4 editions until 1652, examples of which are amongst the rarest books in existence.