Casting Illusions: The World of Fly-Fishing [Hardcover]

Tom Rosenbauer (Author)

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Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Lickle Pub Inc; Rev Sub edition (October 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1890674028
ISBN-13: 978-1890674021
Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,369,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for nearly four decades, and was tying flies commercially at age fourteen. He is the author of numerous books, as well as countless articles for American Angler, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and other periodicals. He is a vice president at the Orvis Company in Manchester, Vermont, and lives in nearby Arlington.

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First Sentence:
Many people think that Englishman Izaak Walton was the first to write about fly-fishing, but his 17th-century masterpiece, The Compleat Angler, appeared 1,400 years after Roman Claudius Aelianus's description of Macedonian "fisherfolk" who "wrap ruby-colored wool about their hooks, and wind about this wool two feathers, which grow under a cock's wattles and are the color of dark wax." Read the first page

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fly line, fly rod

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Yellowstone National Park, The Compleat Angler, Christmas Island, Marble Pool, Mary Orvis Marbury, New York, The Fly Box

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This book cites 3 books:

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton on page 23, page 24, and page 138
South Carolina (United States) by Julie Murray on page 57
Favorite Flies and Their Histories by Mary Orvis Marbury on page 59

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