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Author Michael Russell wrote and published a spoof called Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days, by J. R. Hartley in 1991. [4] [5] The book was a best seller and led to two additional best sellers under the pseudonym J. R. Hartley: J.R. Hartley Casts Again – More Memories of Angling Days (1992) and Golfing by J. Hartley (1995). [2]
Fly fishing on the Gardner River in Yellowstone National Park, USA. Dry fly fishing on small, clear-water streams can be especially productive if the angler stays as low to the ground and as far from the bank as possible, moving upstream with stealth. Trout tend to face upstream and most of their food is carried to them on the current.
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]
Manufacturers of fly tying materials and tools produce products specifically designed for tying artificial flies used in fly fishing. For the most part, the materials and tools from manufacturers are sold to fly tyers through fly fishing retail outlets, both brick and mortar and online stores that buy in bulk from the manufacturers.
The A History of Fly Fishing for Trout (3rd ed.). London: Barry Shurlock. ISBN 0-903330-04-0. Hills, John Waller (1995). A History of Fly Fishing for Trout (Flyfisher's Classic Library 1921 Facsimile ed.). Wales, UK: Bovey Tracy. Hills, John Waller (1997). The A History of Fly Fishing for Trout (Collectors Edition Reprint ed.). Norwalk CT ...
[5] [6] [7] Skues dedicated his 1921 book, The Way of a Trout with the Fly to The Flyfishers' Club "in gratitude for many happy hours and some priceless friends". [8] In 1938, a debate was held at the club on Skues's controversial theories about the use of nymphs in fly-fishing, which led him to publish Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout. [6]
The earliest fly rods were made from greenheart, a tropical wood, and later bamboo originating in the Tonkin area of Guangdong Province in China.The mystical appeal of handmade split-cane rods has endured despite the emergence over the last 50 years of cheaper rod-making materials that offer more durability and performance: fiberglass and carbon fiber.
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