Ebook: Favorite Flies and Their Histories

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Part I.""; ""Insects, Natural and Artificial""; ""Hdjtory of the Red Hackle""; ""Part II.""; ""Prefatory Histories of the Favorite Flies, Accompanied Bt Letters Relating to Their Use In �""; ""Canada""; ""Maine""; ""Vermont and New Hampshire""; ""Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island""; ""New York""; ""Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware""; ""Virginia and West Virginia""; ""Ohio""; ""Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois""; ""Michigan""; ""Minnesota and Wisconsin"";"Who of all that go a-fishing will deny the feeling of a calm content and the glow of satisfaction consequent upon a creel a little heavier of a fish a little larger than that of his fellow-fisherman?"Over 120 years after its original publication, Mary Orvis Marbury's Favorite Flies and Their Histories remains a hugely popular and reliable resource for fly-fishing enthusiasts. Marbury's compilation of nineteenth-century patterns, fancy flies, and fishing theories led the way in standardizing fly patterns in North America, and remarkably, these century-old techniques continue to be cherished by.