The famed stone temple on the River Dove, where Izaak Walton and his friend James Cotton spent many an hour, has been put on the market. Walton was nearly 80 years old in 1674, when Cotton had the “cottage” built on. . .
Read MoreThe first edition of Walton’s The Compleat Angler contained a brief discussion of fly fishing by Thomas Barker. Photo via The Literary Fly Fisher The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton first appeared in 1653, and it was an immediate success. The book was reprinted five times in Walton’s lifetime, with frequent alterations and additions. But … Continue reading “History: A Closer Look at The Compleat Angler“
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You often hear folks talking about the art of fly fishing, but do you really think that the sport rises to that level of importance? An English angler once argued the negative position, saying to. . .
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When a company has been around for more than 150 years, there’s a ton of historical documentation floating around, but it’s always exciting when a connection to the past seems to. . .
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Before television, people went to movie theaters to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular. . .
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Peter Duncan Malloch (1853-1921) was born in Almondbank in Methven Parish, Perthshire, on July 15, 1852. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a bleach worker until 1872, when he. . .
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Yesterday, I discovered that the Internet Archive—non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more—contains a full copy of the first book by our founder, . . .
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Do you know what the eighth-most-watched fly -fishing video on YouTube is? Check out a young Tom Rosenbauer—rocking a sweet pair of aviators while casting on the Battenkill—from this. . .
Read MoreWritten by: Peter Nardini, American Museum of Fly Fishing
Geoffrey Hellman of The New Yorker once described Edward Ringwood Hewitt (1866-1957) as “America’s outstanding example of the inability of man, however much inclined, to turn himself. . .
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If you’ve ever wondered about the origins of the world’s most popular fly, Fly Rod & Reel has a great interview with Fred Blessing, son of the late Russell Blessing, the man who first tied a. . .
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