Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling

Before launching my little bark upon the open waters, I must perform the pleasant duty of acknowledging assistance received in the details of production. Publishers'are usually very loth to incur the responsibilities of bringing out works of this character, which entail much expense, and require great delicacy of management in several important particulars. Few persons can imagine the difficulties to be overcome, and I 'feel that not only my individual thanks, but possibly the thanks of the entire angling fraternity, are heartily due to Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, and in an especial degree to Mr. R. B. Marston, Editor of the Fishing Gazette, who took a deep personal interest in the progress of the venture. This firm not only undertook the heavy pecuniary liability and rendered me every assistance in their power, but gave me practically earle blame/w in arranging matters of detail with printers, engravers on stone and wood, andcolourists, each of whom has in his own particular calling successfully striven to convey accurately to the reader the Author's ide'as.

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Excerpt from Floating Flies and How to Dress Them: A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling

A Few years ago I consulted a professional fly-dresser as to the best means of learning to make artificial flies, to enable me to produce imitations of the natural insects sufficiently good to serve as patterns, and was seriously, and, I believe, without "arrière pensée", assured by him that it was impossible for an Amateur to acquire the art otherwise than by taking a series of lessons at a considerable cost. Having always been an unbeliever in the word impossible I determined to try and teach myself. Accordingly, with a copy of Ronalds' "Fly Fisher's Entomology" opened before me, and a few indispensable materials, I commenced trying to puzzle out the mysteries of the craft. After many attempts, and almost as many failures, I succeeded in turning out something remotely akin in form and colour to the Red Spinner illustrated in that admirable treatise, and was further encouraged by finding a grayling sufficiently silly to take this bad imitation.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.