Books for study 5

Walter & Group....

[GH] From Bob Rumpf :

Hi Gordy & group,

Following your mention of Ernie Schwiebert's "Trout" two volume set. I happen to have two sets available that I was able to purchase including postage at $200.00 and $205.00. These are both the 1978 1st editions in the original slip case. There are several authors who were highly regarded for their impeccable research, and Schwiebert was right up there at the top of the list. And you are absolutely correct about the history lesson available in these volumes, and there is also much about rod development and other fields pertinent to our studies. As with Gary Borger's "Presentation", you find yourself going back time and time again for reference. Schwiebert was an extremely interesting individual and as regards his intellect, remember he wrote the now classic "Matching the Hatch" back in 1955 as a very young man. Below I'll leave you with a little of his beautiful prose that I am sure speaks to all our members.

Schwiebert quote:

"People often ask why I fish, and after seventy-odd years, I am beginning to understand.

I fish because of Beauty.

Everything about our sport (and our cause in terms of TU) is beautiful. Its more than five centuries of manuscript and books and folios are beautiful. Its artifacts of rods and beautifully machined reels are beautiful. Its old wading staffs and split-willow creels, and the delicate artifice of its flies, are beautiful. Dressing such confections of fur, feathers and steel is beautiful, and our worktables are littered with gorgeous scraps of tragopan and golden pheasant and blue chattered and Coq de Leon. The best of sporting art is beautiful. The riverscapes that sustain the fish are beautiful. Our methods of seeking them are beautiful, and we find ourselves enthralled with the quicksilver poetry of the fish."

Regards,

Bob Rumpf

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[GH] Ernie Schwiebert's description of the events surrounding the capture, by Daniel Webster, of a "World record" brook trout of legendary proportions was a delight for me to read !

I spent my youth fishing those Long Island waters including the little Nissequoge river there which may account for my fascination with this story. I caught many brookies there back in the 1930's with my grandfather. This despite the fact that most of our fly fishing on Long Island was done in the salt.

The story involves the old Wyandanche Club/ Suffolk Club near Brookhaven, Long Island, N.Y. Webster is said to have caught this fish as the whole town observed on a Sunday, in 1927. This leviathan brookie catch was depicted in a Currier & Ives print which was later placed in the U.S.A. Congressional Record, according to Schwiebert. *

Peter minnick has promised to someday take me back to those now private hallowed grounds.

In the attachment, you will find pages from BROOK TROUT by Nick Karas of Orient Point, Long Island. This is another description of Daniel Webster's acclaimed, "devil trout". **

* TROUT , by Ernest Schwiebert, 1984, Vol I., pp. 245-248.

** BROOK TROUT A Thorough Look at North America's Great Native Trout - Its History, Biology and Angling Possibilities, by Nick Karas, (Orient Point, New York) Revised edition, 1997, 2002, ISBN 1-58574-733-5, Part I, pp. 1 - 8.

Gordy

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