my early reading covered many years of this journal of british angling ... the salmon and trout hooks of the modern age were designed in the years 1875-1930, when many works were active in manufacture ... Willis, Sealey Bros, Allcock et alia ... the debate on hook design ran over 30 years... as the "eyed hook" predominated ... gut-loops were phased out gradually ... design awards were much sought by tackle makers, as were pattern collections of experimental flyfishers of the day ...
Halford sent his dry flies to Theodore Gordon in NY, which formed the basis of the "Catskill School" ... a Nova Scotian, GE Skues broke tradition on the Test waters, by fishing the upstream nymph or emerger ... the debate between these two continued for years ...
finding original documents on salmon fishing, proved more of a challenge ... Crosfield, though a contemporary of AHE Wood, wrote infrequently about his methods ... most fly sets that did appear in the Hardy, Farlow or Sharpe catalogs pre1945 ; and that proved signifigant - were also part of authored salmon books ... Waddington, Hale and others
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