Angling Echoes September 2018
About This Issue
Angling Echoes September 2018; I love fall. The gorgeous autumnal colors, the excitement of the new school year, the crisp cold of the first frost. It also makes for the best fishing where I grew up in the northland. “Summer fishing is for weekend hacks; September and October separates the men from the boys,” my father used to say.
The September issue is filled with some amazing pieces of fishing literature. The feature piece this month is an 1892 article by Richard F. Kimball on the Ouaniche of Canada’s Lake St. John. It’s got some amazing graphic art as well as some neat early photographs. It’s a classic piece on the Atlantic Salmon.
A couple of very early pieces are James Rennie’s ode to the lowly chub (1833) and the great Genio Scott’s rebuttal to a critic from the storied Spirit of the Times (1864). Written during the Civil War, Scott held nothing back — calling out his anonymous critic as a “horse’s ass” in print. It was a pretty scathing take-down by nineteenth century standards.
There are a pair of articles that should interest tackle historians and collectors. The first, by A. Nelson Cheney of Forest & Stream fame, covers the history of Henry P. Wells’ famous invention, the Parmachenee Belle fly. The second is from the pages of Britain’s Fishing Gazette and recaps the 1917 annual employees’ dinner of the legendary Hardy Bros. firm. It gives tremendous insight into what the firm thought of everything from light fly rods to American competition.
Other detailed articles appearing in this issue include “Brook Trout Fishing” by J.A. Newton (1916), a very good article that covers the subject of trout fishing in Michigan as well as just about any, and “Lake Fly-Fishing” by Edward A. Samuels (1905), a treatise on using the fly rod in deeper water — a subject not written about often. An interesting regional fishing article appears in this issue where Paul Litzke writes lovingly of the fishing opportunities of Northern Iowa (1899).
Three famed angling authors appear in this issue. Dixie Carroll, an old favorite, offers his opinion on the pickerel; Lake Brooks pens a detailed article “Spinning Baits and How to Use Them” (1914) covering most of the major lures of this category; and Cal Johnson’s “Fly Fishing for Bass” (1925) gives an overview of the fly rod baits that had developed in the previous decade that were then flooding the market.
Unusual articles this month include one by Baron Paul Tcherkasov on the subject of a Russian angler’s take on fishing tackle, the Rev. Wilfred Powell’s “No Fun Like Fishing” (1912) which speaks to the religious nature of fishing, and the very strange but nonetheless compelling “In the Land of Montezuma” by E.K. Stedman (1921), one of the first stories of Mexican bass fishing ever published.
My favorite piece this month is by the legendary Theodore Gordon, the American pioneer of dry fly fishing. Best known for his legendary writings on fly angling, he penned the piece in this issue on saltwater fishing — which he loved.
We end as always with “Letters from Mary Kelly,” this time a 1977 letter written to my friend A.J. Campbell, who just recently passed away. God speed, A.J., and may your lines ever be tight.
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