Favorite Flies and Their Histories

Favorite Flies and Their Histories - With many replies from practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, when and where to use them-Illustrated by Thirty-two colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects and eight reproductions of photographs is a fly fishing book written by Mary Orvis Marbury published in Boston in April 1892 by Houghton Mifflin. It was considered by most fly fishers as the standard reference on flies in its era.

Synopsis Favorite Flies is a unique volume that compiles the stories and images of popular American artificial flies of the late 19th century. It is one of the earliest works to use chromolithography color plates. Today, the original flies used to create the color plates are preserved in the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. The stories for each fly described in the volume were obtained through correspondence with fly fisherman and fly tiers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The following is a typical story about the Professor, a popular wet-fly of time:

No. 192. The Professor was named after the much-loved Professor John Wilson (Christopher North), and the story of the fly is, that one time, when this famous angler Was fishing, he ran short of flies, and, to create something of a flylike appearance, he fastened the petals of buttercups on his hook, adding bits of leaves or grass to imitate the wings of a fly. This arrangement was so successful that it led to the making of the fly with a yellow silk body, since then was widely known as the Professor Professor. - A prime favorite; use it on almost all casts when I see more than one fly. When using a black tail fly, I use a brown fly and a Professor for droppers; find it a good fly under general conditions, when using a Miller for tail fly; then use Professor for droppers. From a letter from W. David Tomlin ("Norman") Duluth, Minn as favorite flies for trout in Michigan streams.

Favorite Flies contains plates and stories for Bass Flies, Trout Flies, Hackles, Salmon Flies, and Lake Flies

Reviews

The American Fly Fisher wrote in The Mary Orvis Marbury Fly Plates (1979): The legacy of Mary Marbury, through her book and her leadership in Orvis's commercial fly-tying operation, is the standardization of American fly patterns. Her book Favorite Flies and Their Histories, remains one of the most significant landmarks in American fly tying literature. Charles F. Waterman wrote in his A History of Angling (1981): Mary Orvis Marbury, daughter of Charles F. Orvis, produced Favorite Flies and their Histories in 1892. While it may not complete favorably with later works on entomology, it certainly is unique for its time. It included a practical treatise on fly classification In 1988 Ann Barry of the New York Times wrote: WHEN Mary Orvis Marbury died in 1914, the English Fishing Gazette acclaimed her as the most famous but one female angling author. (The other was Dame Juliana Berners, an Englishwoman who wrote A Treatyse of Fysshying Wyth an Angle in 1496.) Marbury's Favorite Flies and Their Histories, which became a best seller among anglers after it appeared in 1892 and went through nine printings by 1896, has recently been reprinted by the Wellfleet Press. In Royal Coachman-The Lore and Legends of Fly Fishing, Paul Schullery wrote: Mary Orvis Marbury produced one of American fishing literature's milestone volumes, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), which not only served generations as the bible of fly patterns but further strengthened the company's reputation for expertise and reliability Dr. Andrew Herd, noted fly fishing historian comments on Favorite Flies in his 2001 The Fly: ...the book which captured the American wet-fly tradition at its peak was Charles' [Orvis] daughter's Favorite Flies. Mary ran the Orvis company's fly tying department and she was inspired to set pen to paper when she realised how little standardization there was among fly patterns... The answers were compiled and key to colour plates in a book which was still in print sixty years later, such was its popularity

Contents

Part I Insects, Natural and Artificial - 1 History of the Red Hackle - 28 Part II Prefatory - 45 Histories of the favorite flies, accompanied by letters relating to their use in: Canada - 46 Maine - Vermont and New Hampshire - 128 Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island - 144 New York - 160 Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware - 226 Virginia and West Virginia - 266 Ohio - 306 Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois - 334 Michigan - 368 Minnesota and Wisconsin - 392 Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi - 406 Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and Nevada - 418 Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho - 432 Montana - 448 Washington - 472 California - 482 Oregon - 492 "Hic Habitat Felicitas" - 510 Index of Plates and Flies - 515 List of Correspondents - 520 List of Illustrations Disputing the Fly Question - Frontispiece Stoneflies - 13 Drakes - 15 Caddis Flies - 17 Crane Flies and Spiders - 19 House Flies and Ants - 21 Beetles and Chrysopa - 23 Plate A - Hackles - 27 Plate B - Salmon Flies - 39 Portrait of Charles F. Orvis - 45 Plate C - Salmon Flies - 63 Plate D - Salmon Flies - 81 A Pleasant Memory - 93 Plate E - Lake Flies - 95 Plate F - Lake Flies - 113 Plate G - Lake Flies - 125 Plate H - Lake Flies - 139 Plate I - Lake Flies - 157 Plate J - Lake Flies - 171 Plate K - Lake Flies - 189 Plate L - Lake Flies - 199 Plate M - Trout Flies - 221 Plate N - Trout Flies - 239 Plate O - Trout Flies - 255 Equinox, the Edge of the Shadows - 261 Plate P - Trout Flies - 277 Plate Q - Trout Flies - 297 Plate R - Trout Flies - 315 Plate S - Trout Flies - 327 Plate T - Trout Flies - 349 Plate U - Trout Flies - 363 Plate V - Trout Flies - 379 Plate W - Bass Flies - 389 Plate X - Bass Flies - 401 Plate Y - Bass Flies - 413 Plate Z - Bass Flies - 427 Plate AA - Bass Flies - 441 The Ondawa - 442 "Up the Long Road" - 443 Plate BB - Bass Flies - 457 Manchester - 459 Plate CC - Bass Flies - 469 Plate DD - Bass Flies - 479 Plate EE - Bass Flies - 489 Plate FF - Bass Flies - 503 "Hic Habitat Felicitas" - 510

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