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Sir George Harvey was the author of a paper on the "Colour of the Atmosphere," read before the Edinburgh Royal Society, and afterwards published with illustrations in Good Words; and in 1870 he published a small volume entitled Notes of the Early History of the Royal Scottish Academy. Selections from the Works of Sir George Harvey, PRSA ...
Taylor, Samuel (1800). Angling in All Its Branches. London: T. M. Longman and O'Kees. Angling in All Its Branches was one of the first works to address Fly fishing for Salmon and tying salmon flies. Taylor was the first fly fishing author to mention the use of a fly tying vice. [7] Bainbrige, George Cole (1811).
Lee Wulff was born on February 10, 1905, in Valdez, District of Alaska, to parents Charles and Lilly Wulff of Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, respectively. Charles Wulff left Brooklyn around 1900 to seek gold in Alaska but soon became dependent on other work and settled in Valdez. In Valdez, Lee's father was a deputy sheriff and newspaper ...
George Harvey (British politician) (1870–1939), British Conservative MP for Kennington 1924–1929, 1931–1939. George Harvey (sport shooter) (1878–1958), South African sport shooter. George Harvey (cricketer) (1885–1962), Australian cricketer. George Harvey (The Lovely Bones), fictional serial killer in Alice Sebold's 2002 novel The ...
0091751926. Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days, also published as Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley, is a fishing book by British angling author Michael Russell under the pseudonym of J. R. Hartley. It was published by Stanley Paul in 1991 and was intended to capitalise on the popularity of the J. R. Hartley fictional character.
Frederic Maurice Halford (13 April 1844 – 5 March 1914), pseudonym Detached Badger, [2] was a wealthy and influential British angler and fly fishing author. Halford is most noted for his development and promotion of the dry fly technique on English chalk streams. He is generally accepted as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing". [3]
Fly fishing is an angling technique that uses an ultra-lightweight lure called an artificial fly, which typically mimics small invertebrates such as flying and aquatic insects to attract and catch fish. Because the mass of the fly lure is insufficient to overcome air resistance, it cannot be launched far using conventional gears and techniques ...
Ernest George Schwiebert (1931–2005) was born in Chicago on June 5, 1931. An architect by profession, Ernest "Ernie" Schwiebert was a renowned angler and angling author. [ 1] Schwiebert spent his childhood in the Midwest, attended high school at New Trier, north of Chicago, earned his bachelor's degree in architecture from Ohio State ...