Mottram on Fly Fishing Mysteries: Innovations of a Scientist Angler (Fly Fishing Classics) - Hardcover
James Mottram wrote at the height of great intellectual turmoil in the world of British fly fishing. Advocates of dry-fly fishing quarreled with their nymph-fishing counterparts over which type of fishing was not only more effective, but also more appropriate. Mottram entered this bitter debate when he calmly considered the strengths, weaknesses and prospects of all fly-fishing methods. Paul Schullery praises Mottrams enthusiastic voice, ceaseless curiousity and intuitive sense of how things worked. Mottram who was scientifically trained, was also a lively and inventive storyteller which only adds to the value of his work today.
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- PublisherStackpole Books,U.S.
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0811704378
- ISBN 13 9780811704373
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
- EditorPaul Schullery
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MOTTRAM ON FLY-FISHING MYSTERIES: INNOVATIONS OF A SCIENTIST ANGLER. Selected and introduced by Paul Schullery.
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Stackpole Books. Mechnicsburg, PA. 2009.
(2008)
ISBN 10: 0811704378
ISBN 13: 9780811704373
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2009 ). 2009 1st edition thus. 16mo (105 x 159mm). Ppxiv,160. B/w line illustrations, new bibliography, black, decoratively grained end-papers. Powder-blue, decoratively grained paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight shelf-wear but a fine new unread copy in dust-wrapper. Carefully selected excerpts from Mottram's "Fly-fishing: Some New Arts and Mysteries," widely regarded as one of the most innovative fishing books ever written. Mottram was a radiologist. His scientific training gave him great advantages as an investigative trout angler. His fly patterns for nymphs, smuts and "silhouette" duns were years ahead of their time. These patterns date from pre-1915! Mottram's book delves in some depth into all corners of the art of flyfishing and remains as important today as it was ninety years ago. This abridgement retains Mottram's highly amusing chapter "In 2014," where fish of the future are cossetted in highly regulated artificial fisheries and caught and released by anglers who know them individually by names such as 'Brown Beauty.' This of course could never happen in real life! A well-designed and nicely presented new edition which provides an excellent preliminary to further exploration of James Mottram's work. PREVIOUS PRICE £12.95. Seller Inventory # 36236
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