Fly Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water.
de Richard Bowden-Smith
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London. John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. 1851. First edition. [v], vi-viii, [1] 2-74 pp. including appendix. Six plates, with five brilliantly hand-coloured showing flies designed to imitate bait-fish and to attract Sea Trout, Pollack, Pike, Salmon, Trout and Grayling; theyre "full size," as the author describes them. Theres a black and white plate showing how to arrange terminal tackle. The book is notable because its the first work published on fly fishing in salt water. Doesnt that send shivers up your spine? Over the course of 170 years, though, the date reference kind of loses its zing. The plates were illustrated by the firm of Paul Jerrard Litho III Fleet Street. Bowden-Smith describes fly fishing in the coastal waters of Ireland, England, Norway, and Nova Scotia. He gives detailed instructions on how to dress each fly pattern and the materials needed to accomplish it. And if you're so inclined, theres precise instructions on how to dye some of the materials. The book is bound in contemporary brown morocco and marbled boards with gilt titles on the spine. There is light rubbing to the binding. The text and the plates are fine and clean. A very good book..
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- Fly Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water.
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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
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Sobre Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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