The Origins of Angling - Used Hera From the front flap: Thousands

From the front flap: Thousands of trout fishermen are now truly addicted to the soft-hackled fly - the simple

A Summer on the Test (1924)

Baits and Baiting

by David Dirks

The Origins of Angling - Used Hera From the front flap: ThousandsAn Inquiry into the Early History of Fly Fishing with a New Printing of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle by John McDonald From the introduction: The primary justification for this book is that The Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle, the first writing on modern sport fishing, has long been out of print. As it is the first, and as no better essay on fishing has been written, it should always be in print. For most of two centuries, the fifteenth and