The Complete Fly Fisherman

Edited with a special new introduction by John McDonald.
Collector's edition bound in genuine leather.

The best thing about Theodore Gordon is that he wrote well and with remarkable knowledge about contemporary fly-fishing. As the principal creator of the structure and style of the American, imitation trout fly, and the one who introduced and adapted the dry fly to the U. S., he also occupies a unique position in the sport. This historical connection gives his work despite the fact that he died in 1915 an authentic intimacy with our present practices. For it was he who developed much of what we now do. Time moves slowly in fly-fishing. The last time it moved appreciably in the u. S. was with Theodore Gordon. Gordon was a flytier as well a fly-fisherman and a journalist of the stream. His rare dedication to the sport came about by virtue of an illness that barred him from the conventional life of a stockbroker and kept him in the mountains. That at any rate was his excuse for giving his good mind exclusively for many years to the subject of fly-fishing.