Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients: A Celebration of Five Centuries of Lore and Wisdom

By Paul Schullery

Modern fly-fishing is only the latest chapter in a two-millennia saga of technological creativity and passionate observation of the natural world. In Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients , historian-naturalist Paul Schullery explores the earlier chapters in that saga and unearths a host of provocative theories, techniques, and insights that helped shape the modern fly-fisher. Schullery demonstrates that whether we're looking for a good fish story, a clearer understanding of why we fish the way we do, or even a way to improve our own sport, we ignore our elders at our peril. Fly-Fishing Secrets of the Ancients offers the beginning fly-fisher an unprecedented opportunity to come to terms with some of the sport's most fundamental theoretical and practical challenges. It offers the expert fly-fisher a chance to test current angling dogma--and his or her own pet theories--against that of the sport's greatest past masters. And it offers all readers a fresh, probing, and often-humorous take on the great endless fish story we perpetuate and enrich every time we cast a fly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082634688X
• ISBN13: 9780826346889
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Unm Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"