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Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies (Paperback)
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Gentlemen Preferred Dry Flies (Paperback)
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List price R553
Loot Price R467
Discovery Miles 4 670
You Save R86 (16%)
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The author has fished with flies all over the world. His knowledge
of the art and sport of catching trout with feathered imitations of
native insects has been imparted to countless students in his
annual Fly-Fishing Basics classes since 1978. But this book far
surpasses Black's experience on the rivers and streams he has
fished. There is evidence that men have been fooling fish with fake
flies for over 700 years, possibly much longer, going back to China
and Macedonia and Rome. The first fly-fishing book, written in the
early years of the fifteenth century but not published until 1496,
was for many years attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, an English
nun born some years before that. Subsequent evidence shows that she
may not have been the author of the ""Treatise of Fishing with an
Angle"". The true author is unknown, but the dictates of the book
have lived on ever since in the ever-present activity of
fly-fishing's devotees. Black gathers the stories of numerous
historical characters, many of them English aristocrats, who have
adhered to the traditional requirement that flies should be modeled
on the flying insects that land on the water's surface, rather than
nymphs, the immature form of the floating insect. Gentlemen only
fished for rising fish lured by a fleeting food source. While both
techniques are now equally fascinating to gentlemen (and ladies),
the debate between those who prefer dry flies to wet continues to
this day.
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