Stewart on the Wet Fly: Lessons from a Master Tactician (Fly Fishing Classics) - Hardcover

Paul Schullery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811704386 ISBN 13: 9780811704380

Publisher: Stackpole Books,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

William Stewart's writings burst upon the angling world in 1857 in a flurry of acclaim and controversy. Stewart aimed to reshape the angling habits of his day. His forceful arguments on behalf of upstream fishing and his advocacy of shorter, stiffer fly rods were an important influence in the rise of dry-fly fishing. Paul Schullery brings together Stewart's key fly-fishing writings in this first American edition. Many of the rationales behind practices that we take for granted today were first and best expressed by Stewart.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Schullery, an honoured naturalist and historian who Trout magazine hails as 'our pre-eminent angling historian', lives in Montana. He wrote the history of American Fly Fishing and The Rise. His previous American Fly Fishing Classic Series include Halford on the Dry Fly, Skues on Trout, Theodore Gordon on Trout and Norris on Trout Fishing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0811704386
• ISBN 13: 9780811704380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114
• Editor: Paul Schullery