Matching the Hatch: A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern & Western Trout Waters - Softcover

Schwiebert, Ernest G., Jr.

9780979903786: Matching the Hatch: A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern & Western Trout Waters

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Region by region, season by season, this update to the classic fly-fishing manual contains all of the information about the structure, appearance, and habits of the insects that signal the favorite feeding times of various fish. With commentary on dozens of mayflies, stone flies, and caddis flies as well as on crane flies, dragonflies, damsel flies, fish flies, backswimmers, and scuds, this is the ultimate resource for fly fishermen looking to understand the rivers to fish in various situations and how to identify the flies in their different stages. Along with this useful information, the guide is supplemented by large and detailed artwork of the insects as well as a review of the history of fly-fishing, thoughts on the ethics of angling, and anecdotes from the author&;s fly-fishing experience.

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Ernest G. Schwiebert Jr. was a founding member of Trout Unlimited, the Federation of Flyfishers, and Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and a regular contributor to Esquire, Field & Stream, Fly Fisherman, the New York Times, and Sports Afield. He was the illustrator and the author of Death of a Riverkeeper, Nymphs Volumes I and II, Remembrance of Rivers Past, and Trout.

Artist, writer, and activist, James Prosek made his authorial debut while still an undergraduate at Yale University; Trout: An Illustrated History, features seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America. Prosek has shown his paintings with numerous galleries and museums and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. His other books include, Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship, The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton, Fly-fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel, A Good Day&;s Fishing, and The Day My Mother Left. He co-founded a conservation initiative called World Trout in 2004 with Yvon Chouinard, the owner of Patagonia clothing company. Prosek lives in Easton, Connecticut.

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Matching the Hatch

A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern & Western Trout Waters

By Ernest G. Schwiebert

Scott & Nix, Inc.

Copyright � 2011 the Estate of Ernest G. Schwiebert, Jr. and Scott & Nix, Inc.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9799037-8-6

Foreword by James Prosek, 
Author's note, 
The evolution of fly-fishing, 
The trout and his habits, 
The principal stream insects, 
Eastern mayflies: early season, 
Eastern mayflies: spring season, 
Eastern mayflies: summer season, 
Western mayflies: early hatches, 
Western mayflies: late season, 
Caddisflies and stoneflies, 
The lesser trout foods, 
The stream diary, 
On ethics and philosophy astream, 
Afterword by Frank E. Klune, Jr., 
Appendix: Hatching charts and fly patterns, 
Bibliography, 
Index,

CHAPTER 1

The evolution of flyfishing

The artificial fly is quite ancient as a means of fooling trout, for as early as the third century anglers were using flies on the unsuspecting trout of Macedonia. The philosopher Aelian tells us in his De Natura Animalium that a fly of wool and hackles was fished effectively on the Astraeus, and that these crude flies were an attempt at matching the hatch.

We know relatively little about the sport of angling in the long years after Aelian, but in 1496, just four years after an historical voyage by one Christopher Columbus, there came from Winchester, England, a treatise on trout flies. Dame Juliana Berners described methods of fly-dressing and fly-fishing in her surprisingly thorough Treatyse of Fysshynge Wyth an Angle. Some of those historic patterns are still used today.

In 1653, at the mellow age of sixty years, Izaak Walton published his famous Rich, Marriot edition of The Compleat Angler and endeared himself forever to the angling fraternity. This little volume is not just a discourse on fishing methods. It expresses a philosophy of life as well. We know little of Walton's education, but the stature of his angling friends in the intellectual climate of his day indicates that his education must have been adequate, regardless of its nature.

Such men as Sir Henry Wotton, who was an ambassador, scholar, poet and Provost of Eton; John Donne, the well-known poet and preacher, who had no little influence on the thinking of his time; Michael Drayton, who was beloved as England's river poet; and John Hales, scholar and fellow of Eton, were his companions on the stream.

These men fished the quiet British rivers with the long rods and horsehair lines described by Aelian centuries earlier, and it appears that only minor improvements had been made in the tackle used.

In the fifth edition of The Compleat Angler, which appeared in 1676, we meet Charles Cotton, who contributed a treatise devoted to the artificial fly and its use. With this work, he firmly established himself as the father of the sport. Although Walton was thirty-seven years his senior, the esteem that these two men had for each other was apparently great. We have tangible evidence of it in their initials over the door of the fishing house along Cotton's trout water in Derbyshire. Cotton was a man of some means, and was later to achieve a reputation as a traveler, scholar, soldier and poet. The little fishing house on the Dove, with its inscription Piscatoribus sacrum, is preserved today much as it was in 1674. It stands as a shrine for anglers and has stood through the centuries as visible evidence of the brotherhood existing between them.

Walton and his friends lived in troubled times, for England was torn by war between the Roundheads and the Royalists. Yet the tranquility of the words of Walton gives little hint of the strife. Behind those words is a relaxed spirit born on the quiet pools of his rivers.

Some centuries later, in 1836, we find the serious study of insects creeping into angling, with Alfred Ronalds' classic The Fly Fisher's Entomology. It was a book of insects and their imitations, written for the swift rivers in the north of England.

Four years later, John Younger contributed River Angling to the literature of fishing. The most significant facet of this work was the speculation on the nymph in the trout diet. Unfortunately, Younger did not pursue his theories, but continued to fish the traditional wet flies instead of exploring nymph fishing.

In the ten years that followed, there appeared two innovations that were to change angling. Edward Fitzgibbon, in the Handbook of Angling published in 1847, wrote of British tackle-makers and their exploration of split-bamboo rod construction. Their work was apparently confined to tip sections, and the construction was one of three strips, glued with the power fibers of the cane in the inside of the finished sections.

At the same time, the American gunsmith Samuel Phillippi (or Phillipe) was building rods of split cane with the power fibers on the outside, as we do it today. In all fairness, it must be said that a British rod-maker was also using this method at that time, but Phillippi is credited with inventing the four-strip and six-strip construction techniques. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and his contemporaries verify the fact that he was building split-bamboo rods as early as 1846.

The eyed hook for fly-tying is almost unquestionably of British origin, and we know that it was perfected in 1879 by Henry Hall and George Selwyn Marryatt. It was their work that made the dry fly possible.

To Frederick Halford must go the credit for perfecting the dry-fly technique, and it was Halford who wrote the engaging treatises on the dry fly that aroused American interest in the 1880's. His writings included Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, Dry Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice, Dry Fly Entomology and The Development of the Dry Fly. Not long before his death in 1914, Halford compiled the dressings for some thirty-odd patterns imitating those insects he had found most important in a lifetime of fishing British trout waters.

Martin Moseley carried on Halford's work in imitating British fly life in his Dry Fly Fisherman's Entomology. Much credit must be given to him for this refinement of dry-fly knowledge.

The bulk of the credit for the development of the dry- fly technique on our streams must go to Theodore Gordon, who is considered the father of the dry fly in America. He was first attracted to the dry-fly method by Halford's Floating Flies and How to Dress Them in 1886. The concept of the dry fly must have germinated within Gordon for some time before he took it up, for he once wrote that the dry fly became an obsession with him about the year 1889.

In that year he began to acquire suitable tackle from British firms. His stronger interest may have resulted from the appearance of Halford's second work on the dry-fly technique. Through correspondence with Halford, he obtained a now-famous set of dry-fly patterns, complete with instructions on their tying. Gordon went on to create many of the popular patterns of today.

He spent the closing years of his life pursuing his beloved trout fishing on the Catskill streams of New York. His notes and letters are lovingly gathered for us in The Complete Fly Fisherman by John MacDonald. He died at Bradley, near the Neversink, in 1915.

While the evolution of the fly was progressing rapidly, men were learning more of the latent possibilities in split bamboo. Rods were becoming lighter...

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