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 Author Name: Edward R. Hewitt
Title: A TROUT & SALMON FISHERMAN FOR SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: TRAFALGAR SQUARE
ISBN Number: 0709075855 / 9780709075851
Seller ID: 1136380
The distillation of Hewitt's lifetime's angling expertise in America, Great Britain, Ireland & elsewhere. Much of the advice is just as relevant today. The welcome reissue of a timeless classic in a limited edition of 750 copies. B&W drawings & sketches; 35 pgs. of B&W plates & photos; 6x9 inches, 305 pgs.
'Edward R. Hewitt, with Theodore Gordon and a few others, was one of the 20th century's legendary fly-fishing influences. This is the distillation of his lifetime's angling expertise in America, Great Britain, Ireland and elsewhere. Much of the advice is just as relevant today.
Although it is based on Hewitt's two earlier classics, Telling on the Trout, (which approached trout fishing from the fish's point of view!) and Secrets of the Salmon (which created the sport of dry-fly salmon fishing), this book is no mere recapitulation of earlier material. Here, in his breezy discursive style, the author gives the summation of his unequalled knowledge of angling, drawing from the backlog of his vast experience.
Hewitt approached angling as a science as well as a sport: he studied the psychology of the fish as well as the fisherman, and developed his methods with the fish's weaknesses foremost in mind. The result, embodied in this book, is a highly successful philosophy of angling which any fisherman today would recognize and value.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Edward Hewitt was born in 1866 and spent his early years in New Jersey -- mostly at the family summer home on the Ringwood River where he first learned to fly-fish. Before he was 20 years old, he and his brother were operating a sizeable trout hatchery. After university and then marriage in 1892, he made numerous trips to Europe where he fished extensively in England and Scotland as well as France and Germany. This was at the critical time of the codifying of fly-fishing theory and practice by F.M. Halford et al. He took the knowledge back with him to the United States. In 1918 be bought 4.5 miles of the world-famous Neversink River Valley in New York Statae where he extablished a summer home and a trout hatchery. Edward R. Hewitt wrote several angling titles, but two stand out as enduring classics, Telling on the Trout (1926) and Secrets of the Salmon (1992) in which he shared with an astonished angling world his singlehanded development of dry-fly fishing for salmon.
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