Are there books about Catskill fishing story's in the 30's to the 60's?
Thanks Olaf
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Books about Catskill fishing story's
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 gespliesste |
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Posts: 265 05/19/2008 02:24 |
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gmflyfish |
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Posts: 1026 05/19/2008 08:39 |
Austin wrote a most wonderful history. Corey Ford wrote a lot about the catskills in the 30-40's not specifically - Ray Bergman etc.
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Posts: 41 05/19/2008 11:23 |
Yes. The Beaverkill by Ed Van Put. Catskill Rivers by Austin M. Francis. Both are great. Randy
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Posts: 357 05/19/2008 11:48 |
The book title is:
"Land of Little Rivers" by Austin Mck. Francis. photos by Enrico Ferorelli. A beautiful large format book. Larry Swearingen |
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Posts: 43 05/19/2008 12:00 |
I forgot to mention: Harry Darbee's autobiography.
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Posts: 50 05/19/2008 19:30 |
If your time frame (30's - 60's) isn't set in stone, here are a few books that I really liked that have at least some stories taking place in the
Catskills. Some are published after the 60's but the stories took place earlier:
Arnold Gingrich - The Well Tempored Angler" - published in the mid 60's & The Joys of Trout - early 70's Dana Lamb - Where the Pools are all Bright and Deep - published in the early 70's Sparse Grey Hackle - Fishless Days, Angling Nights - early 70's Earnest Schwiebert - Remembrances of Rivers Past - early 70's (only a few stories, but very good) Nick Lyons - Full Creel - This is a compilation (I'd recommend getting all the individual books.) All of his books (I think) were published after 1970, but again many of the stories take place in the time frame that you requested. Preston Jennings - A Book of Trout Flies - mid 30's Edward R. Hewitt - A Trout and Salmon Fisherman for 75 Years - late 40's (some of these were earlier than the 30's) Hope this helps, Bob
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Posts: 261 05/19/2008 20:17 |
I'd also add My Side of the River: Reflections of a Catskill Fly Fisherman, by Roger Menard, and Randy's book The Fly Caster Who Tried to
Make Peace with the World.
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Posts: 266 05/20/2008 06:33 |
Thank's all of you for this great info!
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Posts: 51 05/20/2008 07:27 |
Being the idiot that I am, I forgot to mention the book that I'm reading right now - The Legendary Neversink. A Treasury of the Best Writing About One
of America's Great Trout Rivers. This has stories from Austin Francis, R. Palmer Baker, Leonard Wright Jr., plus Gordon, Hewitt, LaBranche, Bergman,
Sparse, Atherton, Schwiebert, Lyons...
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Posts: 263 05/20/2008 09:29 |
Armchair Angler wrote: Hmmm. Never heard of that book. Will have to check it out. However it did remind me to include another book for the list: Neversink, by Leonard Wright. Also, count me as a fellow idiot. I forgot to include Trout Fishing in the Catskills by Ed Van Put. Duh! This is a huge book that just came out within the past year. It's got it all covered. I admit I haven't had a chance to attack it yet but I've skimmed through a few sections.
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Posts: 1963 05/20/2008 14:06 Moderatus Muscae |
A companion piece to Harry Darbee's Catskill Flytier: My Life, Times, and Techniques (1977) is The Dettes: A Catskill Legend by Eric Leiser (1992).
The Complete Fly Fisherman: The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon (1947), edited by John McDonald. All about Sullivan county fishing, and many other things. One of the few books that you can open at random and find something worthwhile on every page. For a 118-year-old report on trout fishing in the Catskills, see this June 1, 1890 New York Times article: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803EFDA123BE533A25752C0A9609C94619ED7CF
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Posts: 1 05/28/2008 02:46 |
Armchair Angler wrote: love this!!! Return to the Gorge,"The Legendary Neversink" is a keeper.
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Posts: 248 05/28/2008 09:19 |
Might I inquire, youcuuu., where or how you learned that theNeversink is where dry fly fishing was introduced in America?
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Frank Mele's Small in the Eye of the River
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Posts: 1971 05/28/2008 12:54 Moderatus Muscae |
My guess is that youcuuu received some adaptation of John McDonald's introductory remarks in The Complete Fly Fisherman:
The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon (1947) where Gordon is described as "the Sage of the
Neversink" who "...fled civilization for a retreat of that famous trout stream, the Neversink, in New York
State," where in 1890 he received a package from England from Frederic Halford, enclosing a full set of Halford's dry flies - "...and the dry fly winged its way to the New World."
I love this book, and we owe McDonald a lot for researching and producing it, but this romantic portrait of the origin of the American dry fly is inaccurate. Gordon did not introduce or invent the American dry fly any more than Robert Fulton invented the steamboat or Henry Ford invented the automobile. However, I would say that people like Gordon, Fulton, and Ford in a way did something even more important than inventing these things: they came up with the version that mattered, that made a difference in the way people thought and acted afterwards.
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Posts: 249 05/28/2008 20:12 |
Quash, I agree wholeheartedly with your second paragraph above. And would add: often, rightly, wrongly or indifferently, the kudos go to the promoter, not the
creator.
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