Published originally in 1920, this classic fly-fishing book begins with a delightful essay on the joys of angling, then proceeds to describe in detail the steps to making a bamboo fly-fishing rod. There are numerous illustrations by the author to supplement the text.
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Dr. George Parker Holden was a luminary of the American angling world in the early twentieth century, who wrote the angling manual "Streamcraft" in 1919 and numerous articles for the Angler's Club of New York Bulletin. His milestone book from 1920, "The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo," is credited with starting the home rodbuilding movement.
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Fresh- or sweet-water angling is one of the most ancient, cleanest, most engrossing, enduring, healthful, and accessible of recreations available in this world of mingled riches and poverty, pleasure and pain, of steadfast affections and changing regard; and it possesses a considerable literature, both delightful and classical, extending from before the times of Dame Juliana Berners, prioress of Sopwell nunnery, and of its patron saint Izaak Walton, down to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Fresh- or sweet-water angling is one of the most ancient, cleanest, most engrossing, enduring, healthful, and accessible of recreations available in this world of mingled riches and poverty, pleasure and pain, of steadfast affections and changing regard; and it possesses a considerable literature, both delightful and classical, extending from before the times of Dame Juliana Berners, prioress of Sopwell nunnery, and of its patron saint Izaak Walton, down to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chambers Street, Izaak Walton, Post Mills New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Splitting Cane: Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers by Ed Engle on page 208
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