Gentlemen preferred dry flies
Subtitle: the dry fly and the nymph--evolution and conflict
By: William C. Black III.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780826347954
Subjects: Fishers -- Biography; Fly tiers -- Biography; Fly fishing -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hail Britannia and Dame Juliana; title: All England, divided into three parts; title: Grayling too; title: Walton, cotton and the hut on the River Dove; title: Bowlker anticipates the future; title: Ronalds brings the science; title: Stewart faces up; title: Pritt, the man from Yorkshire; title: Pulman fishes the surface; title: Marryat, the power behind the throne; title: Halford, the messiah; title: Sir Edward Grey and the interregnum; title: G.E.M. Skues picks up the gauntlet; title: Mottram, renaissance angler; title: Thaddeus Norris and the early Yankee fly fishers; title: Gordon and the trans-Atlantic dry fly; title: Labranche and the dry fly, American style; title: Edward Ringwood Hewitt, fly fisher extraordinaire; title: Preston Jennings, America's Ronalds; title: Ray BErgman's bible; title: Sawyer elevates the nymph; title: Leisenring and the American nymph; title: The nymph, westward ho!; title: Marinaro's modern dry fly code; title: Lee Wulff, bigger than life; title: The emergence.