Best fly fishing books?
Dave U. Random
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Family-Outdoors
List Fail!!!
Like an idiot I am responding to this...
You disqualified yourself in my opinion by not including anything by
the late Ray Bergman.
Ever heard of him?
Doubt it.
Based on your profile I doubt you know a fly rod from a trombone.
One person's opinion,
Paul
Mark Bowen
"Family-Outdoors" <pama...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Your are right sir!
I have my trusty copy, 1952, I believe? However, either Bergman had the
world's best memory or he made up shit as he went along,IMMHO. He could tell
you every inch and turn on every stream he had ever fished--40 years on!
Still a very good book!
Op
Russell D.
That was pretty much my assessment. That and some hyperbole.
Still. a good book.
Russell
Giles
Can one be forgiven for wondering whether the Random sample was
arrived at after a perusal of ALL fly fishing books?......or were some
perhaps culled without a close reading? Say, for example, something
that was never published in Nanubae, Urdu, Basque, Scots Gaelic,
Finnish, English or some other obscure language with which the author
of the report is not intimately familiar?
g.
well, that COULD happen, ainna?
Family-Outdoors
> "Family-Outdoors" <pamann...@gmail.com> wrote in message
One thing Bergman stated was that early on he began keeping a detailed
journal on every fishing trip he took. But maybe he embellished... as
do all good fishermen.
Paul
John B
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Well, .. they have no word for spam.....
johbn
Mark Bowen
I recall that, but good god, I would think to myself as I read Trout, "this
guy is mapping the stream, he can't be fishing it!"
Op
Don Phillipson
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> I have my trusty copy, 1952, I believe? However, either Bergman had the
> world's best memory or he made up shit as he went along,IMMHO. He could
tell
> you every inch and turn on every stream he had ever fished--40 years on!
This might be true for an angler who kept no personal
fishing diary or similar records. Passages in Trout
mention these records, normal for a magazine journalist
in the 1930s.
"Mark Bowen" <beau...@charter.net> wrote in message
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> . . . I would think to myself as I read Trout, "this
> guy is mapping the stream, he can't be fishing it!"
On the other hand, Bergman's advice for fishing any
strange stream is first to sit down and study it to get
its fishy geography into your memory, to fish from the
bank where possible, and step only into the stream
only after you have read the water to as to work out
where the fish are and where you will disturb them least.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
Mark Bowen
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> "Mark Bowen" <beau...@charter.net> wrote in message
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>
>> I have my trusty copy, 1952, I believe? However, either Bergman had the
>> world's best memory or he made up shit as he went along,IMMHO. He could
> tell
>> you every inch and turn on every stream he had ever fished--40 years on!
>
> This might be true for an angler who kept no personal
> fishing diary or similar records. Passages in Trout
> mention these records, normal for a magazine journalist
> in the 1930s.
It has been some time since I last read Bergman's "Trout," but my
recollections still tell me that he kept track of a great deal more than I
could possibly have, if I were fishin' and writing to a journal at the same
time.
>> . . . I would think to myself as I read Trout, "this
>> guy is mapping the stream, he can't be fishing it!"
>
> On the other hand, Bergman's advice for fishing any
> strange stream is first to sit down and study it to get
> its fishy geography into your memory, to fish from the
> bank where possible, and step only into the stream
> only after you have read the water to as to work out
> where the fish are and where you will disturb them least.
I don't doubt that Bergman studied streams intensively, but if I recall
correctly, he wrote in the same manner about streams he was fishing for the
first time in far of places (my memory may be failing me hear) and he was
still able to tell the reader about virtually every inch of the streams he
fished.
Like you said in the previous paragraph, this was the 1930s and times were
simpler and a person with a passion probably would spend an inordinate
amount of time paying attention to his/her surroundings, especially if that
person intended to write extensively about their experiences.
No doubt, Bergman painted a very pretty picture and some fine fly plates and
trout drawings too--he did do the plates and drawings, right?
Op
Don Phillipson
> No doubt, Bergman painted a very pretty picture and some fine fly plates
and
> trout drawings too--he did do the plates and drawings, right?
No: flies painted by Dr. Edgar Burke, fish painted by
William Schaldach. Both sets were when published
(1952) about the best in print, not so rare nowadays.
The main difference between our time and Bergman's
is that there now are 10 times as many anglers
pursuing far fewer fish (aside from new hatchery stocks.)
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