The Golden Age of Fly-Fishing: The Best of the Sportsman 1927-1937

By Ralf Wales Coykendall, Jr.

Book Overview

When Ralf Coykendall Jr. was but a gleam in his father's eye, Ralf Sr. was working as the advertising director of The Sportsman . Some 60 years later, the younger Coykendall--by now a noted sporting collectibles dealer and author in his own right--came across a stash of the long-defunct magazine in an attic. He recognized immediately what a treasure he'd found. From those yellowed pages he has selected this anthology of writings and drawings on fly-fishing--one of the fastest-growing sports in America today. All of them have aged well: There are a (surprisingly) few quaint references to long-ago equipment (the care and feeding of silk fly lines, for instance), but the strategies, flies, and fish-catching wisdom found here are as timely and illuminating as the day they were written. What has changed is tone: Each article is gracious, unhurried, and optimistic. Fly-fishing has changed little, it seems, but fly-fishers have changed much.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881503983
• ISBN13: 9780881503982
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"