Favorite Flies and Their Histories
In 1890, Mary Orvis Marbury—daughter of the founder of The Orvis Company—wrote to anglers all over the country soliciting information on their favorite flies and how they were to be made and used. Her inquiries resulted in publishable responses from more than two hundred fly fishermen in thirty-eight states. Marbury compiled these responses to form this book, first published in 1892.

Favorite Flies went through nine printings by 1896—a fishing best-seller even by today's standards. With its clear description of nearly 300 flies, accompanied by fascinating—and expert—advice on their use, this definitive compilation sounds as startlingly current today as it did when it was written.

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Favorite Flies and Their Histories
In 1890, Mary Orvis Marbury—daughter of the founder of The Orvis Company—wrote to anglers all over the country soliciting information on their favorite flies and how they were to be made and used. Her inquiries resulted in publishable responses from more than two hundred fly fishermen in thirty-eight states. Marbury compiled these responses to form this book, first published in 1892.

Favorite Flies went through nine printings by 1896—a fishing best-seller even by today's standards. With its clear description of nearly 300 flies, accompanied by fascinating—and expert—advice on their use, this definitive compilation sounds as startlingly current today as it did when it was written.

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Favorite Flies and Their Histories

Favorite Flies and Their Histories

by Mary Orvis Marbury
Favorite Flies and Their Histories

Favorite Flies and Their Histories

by Mary Orvis Marbury

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Overview

In 1890, Mary Orvis Marbury—daughter of the founder of The Orvis Company—wrote to anglers all over the country soliciting information on their favorite flies and how they were to be made and used. Her inquiries resulted in publishable responses from more than two hundred fly fishermen in thirty-eight states. Marbury compiled these responses to form this book, first published in 1892.

Favorite Flies went through nine printings by 1896—a fishing best-seller even by today's standards. With its clear description of nearly 300 flies, accompanied by fascinating—and expert—advice on their use, this definitive compilation sounds as startlingly current today as it did when it was written.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781434105509
Publisher: Waking Lion Press
Publication date: 02/10/2024
Pages: 598
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

Mary Orvis Marbury was the daughter of the Orvis Company founder, Charles Orvis. For her work on Favorite Flies and Their Histories, Marbury is lauded as one of the most influential women in the sport of fly-fishing. She is now deceased.

Table of Contents

Part I.

Insects, Natural and Artificial 1

History of the Red Hackle 28

Part II.

Prefatory 45

Histories of the Favorite Flies, Accompanied by Letters Relating to their Use in-

Canada 46

Maine 100

Vermont and New Hampshire 128

Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island 144

New York 160

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware 226

Virginia and West Virginia 266

Ohio 306

Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois 334

Michigan 368

Minnesota and Wisconsin 392

Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and Mississippi 406

Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada 418

Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho 432

Montana 446

Washington 472

California 482

Oregon 492

"Hic Habitat Felicttas" 509

Index to Plates and Flies 515

List of Correspondents 520

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