Classic SW flies Book Status

[striblue]

I have yet to tye a fly since the end of the summer and am devoting about 100% of my free time on this book,which will be about Classic SW flies. I have been reseaching the saltwater fly going back to the ancient Greeks up though Bernes and to Walton , though the early English sea trout to the early American writers like, Brown, Smith, Scott, Holder, Norris, Roosevelt and Henshall.. This will turn out to be a 200+ pages on the History--- this currently includes a Bibliography of about 75 books...need to then look though the old magazines and make a trip to Manchester VT and to the IGFA...Plus I have finished Interviewing Edson Leonard, Al Brewster, Cooper Gilkes,Armard Courchaine, Bill Catherwood , and Steve Raymond on the west Coast... I will need to follow up. This week I have arrangements to interview Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Bill Curtis and Scott Sparrow (TX Coast)...Spoke with C. Boyd Pfieffer yesterday....Will be making arrangements to interview Russ Chatham as well and the Historian of the Catalina Tuna Club and a trip to the Library at the NY Anglers Club.. I will probably interview more including a second round with Lefty Kreh. Joe and I have been gettig commitments for flies ... from Popvoics, Abrames, Puglisi, Sedotti, Brown, Taboury, Blados, Blanton, Purinchief, Borski, Clouser, Farrar, Martinek, Murphy, Fernandez, Gartside,Skok, Martinak, Windram...to name a few... We are really getting down to it looking at the October 05 first draft deadline. Combs, Daulberg, Mitchell, Seigler, Pallot, Whitlock, Curcione, Bailey, Moret, Cardenas, Humphreys,etc...need follow ups. I will be traveling down to the URI to examine Harold Gibbs papers. So... I feel like a duracell battery...Wild River Press is doing it... and we are looking at a three part...atleast we think, book with the History of the SW fly, then the old classic flies and a grouping of the current go to flies that we think will be around years from now.

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I have yet to tye a fly since the end of the summer and am devoting about 100% of my free time on this book,which will be about Classic SW flies. I have been reseaching the saltwater fly going back to the ancient Greeks up though Bernes and to Walton , though the early English sea trout to the early American writers like, Brown, Smith, Scott, Holder, Norris, Roosevelt and Henshall.. This will turn out to be a 200+ pages on the History--- this currently includes a Bibliography of about 75 books...need to then look though the old magazines and make a trip to Manchester VT and to the IGFA...Plus I have finished Interviewing Edson Leonard, Al Brewster, Cooper Gilkes,Armard Courchaine, Bill Catherwood , and Steve Raymond on the west Coast... I will need to follow up. This week I have arrangements to interview Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Bill Curtis and Scott Sparrow (TX Coast)...Spoke with C. Boyd Pfieffer yesterday....Will be making arrangements to interview Russ Chatham as well and the Historian of the Catalina Tuna Club and a trip to the Library at the NY Anglers Club.. I will probably interview more including a second round with Lefty Kreh. Joe and I have been gettig commitments for flies ... from Popvoics, Abrames, Puglisi, Sedotti, Brown, Taboury, Blados, Blanton, Purinchief, Borski, Clouser, Farrar, Martinek, Murphy, Fernandez, Gartside,Skok, Martinak, Windram...to name a few... We are really getting down to it looking at the October 05 first draft deadline. Combs, Daulberg, Mitchell, Seigler, Pallot, Whitlock, Curcione, Bailey, Moret, Cardenas, Humphreys,etc...need follow ups. I will be traveling down to the URI to examine Harold Gibbs papers. So... I feel like a duracell battery...Wild River Press is doing it... and we are looking at a three part...atleast we think, book with the History of the SW fly, then the old classic flies and a grouping of the current go to flies that we think will be around years from now.


You're really putting your time into it. I wish you the best of success,
Rich N

[Sentience]

I am definitely looking forward to this book. There is such a void in this area. Can't wait. Sounds like fun.

[silkfish]

You missed one very very important person Capt Steve Huff. Ask Flip,Lefty,Stu etc.

[striblue]

Thanks ,but we have him as well... I just did not list all the names in the post.

[breezyloon]

Striblue, you mention the English seatrout, I'm not sure they were fishing for them in the salt, perhaps? However,in the Shetland Island off the north coast of Scotland, there has been a long tradition of fishing for seatrout (sea run brown trout), in the salt. The Shetlands are part of Scotland, but much of its culture is Norse in origin. A reference to the seatrout fishing can be found in the great angling book "Going Fishing" by Negley Farson, an American. Harcourt,Brace and Co. the publisher. Farson speaks of fishing with chamois sand eel imitations on page 67. But read the whole book it's great. I already said that. THe book was published sometime in the late 1930s or early 40s. Good luck with your book.

[striblue]

Thanks for the tip off... yes...they were fishing salt even back in the days of Davy and Grey... I have a number of books, early books going back to 1800, including Wilcocks and Bickerdyde (sp)...but thanks for that 1930's tip off... I will check it out...

[Jim Miller]

Sounds great John!
Can't wait to read it.
sooo...when does it hit the news stands?

[striblue]

Jim...our schedule is a first draft to the publisher by Oct 05... then it will take a number of months to finalize everything...and even with the first draft in...we will be chasing down flies probabaly right up to printing...I would say ...maybe some 8 to 10 months after Oct 05... this is not unusual for this type of thing.