Post by JoeOverlock on Jan 15, 2006 19:43:23 GMT -5
I found this amazing website while searching the web today. If your looking for a little bit of an educational experience, take some time to visit it.
www.flyfishinghistory.com/
On this website they have a complete edition of "Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners" written in 1496. This is the first book ever published about fly fishing. It's not exactly "Selective Trout" or "Matching the Hatch", but it's neat to read.
To read it click here:
www.flyfishinghistory.com/treatise_prologue.htm
The neat thing about this book is that she talks of the joys of fishing and relates it to the Holy Scripture long before Issac Walton wrote his masterpiece. Here's a quote from the first page:
"Solomon in his proverbs says that a good spirit makes a flowering age, that is, a happy age and a long one. And since it is true, I ask this question, 'Which are the means and the causes that lead a man into a happy spirit?" Truly, in my best judgement, it seems that they are good sports and honest games which a man enjoys without any repentance afterward."
Also she includes the recipes for 12 flies of the time. To get those recipes go here: www.flyfishinghistory.com/treatfly.htm
It's really fun to read. Oh, and did I mention that is was written by a woman?
Just an interesting side note, something that isn't listed on that website. In my personal Fly Fishing library I recently added a reprint of "The Art of Fly Making" by William Blacker first published around 1850. While reading it I came across a paragraph where he speaks about creating a "Fly Fishing Only" section in the Conway River in Whales, U.K.
www.flyfishinghistory.com/
On this website they have a complete edition of "Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners" written in 1496. This is the first book ever published about fly fishing. It's not exactly "Selective Trout" or "Matching the Hatch", but it's neat to read.
To read it click here:
www.flyfishinghistory.com/treatise_prologue.htm
The neat thing about this book is that she talks of the joys of fishing and relates it to the Holy Scripture long before Issac Walton wrote his masterpiece. Here's a quote from the first page:
"Solomon in his proverbs says that a good spirit makes a flowering age, that is, a happy age and a long one. And since it is true, I ask this question, 'Which are the means and the causes that lead a man into a happy spirit?" Truly, in my best judgement, it seems that they are good sports and honest games which a man enjoys without any repentance afterward."
Also she includes the recipes for 12 flies of the time. To get those recipes go here: www.flyfishinghistory.com/treatfly.htm
It's really fun to read. Oh, and did I mention that is was written by a woman?
Just an interesting side note, something that isn't listed on that website. In my personal Fly Fishing library I recently added a reprint of "The Art of Fly Making" by William Blacker first published around 1850. While reading it I came across a paragraph where he speaks about creating a "Fly Fishing Only" section in the Conway River in Whales, U.K.