Fly Fishing History
Recent cold leaves thousands of dead fish or even hundreds of thousands of dead fish floating in the canals of southern Florida, lost for nearly two weeks long cold snap. "In all my years of being a law enforcement officer, I have never seen anything like this," said Lt. Jorge Pino, spokesman for Florida Fish and Wildlife. "The fish are dead and which are against the mangroves and there are plenty of fish …
Fly-Fishing history lesson
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Historic Print (S): Fly fishing $24.95 This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1879.Subject: Notes: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2249Format: Lithographs 1870-1880.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Vintage Trout Fishing & Trout Farm Educational Film DVD: Classic Trout Fishing & Fish Fertilization Footage $11.99 This is a niche film from 1953 about a specific type of fish…the trout. Get this special DVD edition! Table of Contents: (1) Pennsylvania Fish Commission (1953) – Trout fishing in Pennsylvania is the topic of this vintage film from 1953 with footage of trout farms, fishing and trout fertilization – 13 Minutes… |
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Favorite Flies and their Histories $250.00 Mary Orvis Marbury’s definitive work on fly tying and selection has been a must-have for fly fishers and collectors since its 1892 debut. Beautifully illustrated with reproductions of the original 32 color plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects, and eight black and white photographs. Bound in naturally finished rayon covers with acid-free paper, our exclusive collector’s edition is lim… |
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Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection $4.98 Thirty-five million Americansâone in eightâlike to go fishing. Fly fishers have always considered themselves the aristocracy of the sport, and a small number of those devotees, a few thousand at most, insist upon using one device in the pursuit of their obsession: a handcrafted split-bamboo fly rod. Meeting this demand for perfection are the inheritors of a splendid art, one that reveres… |
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A Master’s Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod $60.00 By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever and describes how its done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protégé, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo r… |
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Wind River $3.84 You Can’t Outrun the Sins of Your Past Desperate to forget what happened to him in Iraq, Tyler Perkins flees to the emptiness of Wyoming. He’s here to escape and also to fulfill a long-ago promise by accompanying his 86-year-old friend Soren Andeman on a fly-fishing trip–once more for old time’s sake. But their trek to an idyllic trout lake soon becomes something more deeply harrowing–a jour… |
