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[GH] Lefty Kreh comments on fly casting history :
Gordy
Very interesting and i really enjoyed it.
In the 1970's when I was at The Fly Fishers Club Of London (I think that is the official name where they have Isaac Walton's creel and they forced me to wear a tie at lunch) I was told by some historian member the double haul was used in Europe well before Marvin Hedge.
As you know much of what has been claimed shouldn't. For example one man claims he invented the fly fishing jacket but Boyd Pfeiffer's book on the history of fly fishing has old catalog sheets showing fly fishing jackets sold decades before—just as an example of almost anything new isn't.
If you read the hardback fly tying book by George Herter I counted five flies that have been "invented" years after he published them in his book in the 1940's.
Lefty
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Lefty....
That was probably true ..... fly fishers in the UK and the European Continent may well have used it...... could even have been used by some as a private accomplishment. Just "something that worked".
If that technique had been recognized in Europe, however, it makes me wonder why it hadn't been used in tournaments prior to Hedge demonstrating it. Perhaps it had and I just didn't find evidence of that (????). I'd welcome it if someone could could come up with descriptions or pictures of double haul use in the competition records or European fly casting literature prior to 1934.
It certainly was described by Charles Ritz in his European first edition of A FLY FISHER'S LIFE, but that was written after Hedge had demonstrated the hauls in N. America and Europe.
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[GH] Harry Boyd weighs in on behalf of bamboo rods used in tournaments years ago :
As a bamboo enthusiast, I'm always amazed at the distances some of the casters of early times achieved. I can't help but wonder how many of our modern day casters can reach similar distances with current equipment.
Harry Boyd
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[GH] Harry,
We can also look back of some of the astounding casting achievements of men such as Alexander Grant who used Greenheart fly rods in Scotland years ago.
We "moderns" wouldn't have the techniques and tackle of today were it not for those who developed fly casting methods before most of us were born. We build on their foundations. Fly casters of the future will, in turn, build upon ours.
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