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The Adams: "A Great Salesman"
THE NOVELIST AND SPORTING writer Thomas McGuane summed up the near-mystical popularity of the Adams dry fly when he...
The Mystery of the Ratty Fly
ONE DAY LAST SUMMER, I was fishing a small, undistinguished local trout stream, and as I released one of its small...
Did Native Americans Invent Fly Fishing for Bass?
Have a question you want answered? Email it to us at [email protected]. Question: Someone told me that Native...
A Dreadful Scourge
THE STREAMER IS A very old idea. British fly-fishing historian Conrad Voss Bark wrote, in A History of Flyfishing...
Reading the Rise
WHEREVER I TRAVEL in a car, I always see the bridges coming, and when I get to them I always look down. I just have to...
Imperialist Trout
WHAT'S THE BIGGEST CHANGE in trout fishing in the past 200 years? Was it the popularization of the eyed hook in the...
Halford and Skues: "This Chalkstream Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us"
FROM THE NORTH-COUNTRY streams of England came the most lasting landmarks in the development of the fly fishing. The...
Fishing with Guts
IN THE EARLY 1700s, after anglers had been using horsehair lines for more than a thousand years, they finally...
