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cwfly	Musty and dusty - do you read them?		Lead	[-]
Posts: 804 01/07/2009 18:05	Tags : None I confess to finding enjoyment in reading, when I can get my eyes or hands on copies, 19^th and early 20^th century issues of bygone journals such as Forest and Stream, The American Angler and Shooting and Fishing. I have not had such luck in finding many copies of similar publications from across the pond, such as The Fishing Gazette and the Field. There are some similarities between those journals, at least that's my opinion, and this very forum. Opinions are freely expressed and exchanged in letters to the editor or articles, photographs (or photo-engravings) are included and the advertisements are sometimes historically significant and sometimes just amusing. Speaking only for myself, I find reading one of those publications by and large more interesting than reading most contemporary fly fishing magazines. I just wondered if any others find literary satisfaction in bygone words. Maybe I'm just an antique that sometimes lives, either deservedly or by choice, in the dustbin of the past. Charlie
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Eric Peper		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 82 01/07/2009 18:20	You're not alone, Charlie. I've got about a dozen copies of Field & Stream from the mid-50s that I reread/rescan periodically. They are wonderful both in scope and quality of content. Good Lord, where could you find an outdoor magazine with writers like Corey Ford and Robert Ruark today, not to mention the staff writers back then like Bergman, Trueblood, Brooks, McClane, Page, O'Connor!! EP
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creakycane		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1993 01/07/2009 18:30	There is not much contemporary stuff that is of that calliber - the best of the Yale Anglers Journal, Waterlog and the defunct Fly Fishing Heritage and Spring Creek Journal are all outstanding modern journals --- Grays Sporting Journal and "The Drake' in small doses are amusing, along with some issues of the AMFF jl..... ----- Sports Afield was good there for a few years when Terry McDonnell was at the helm (just as Esquire was excellent duing McDonnell's tenure). Most everything you will find in Borders or Barnes and Noble can be thumbed through and fully digested in about 90 secs/magazine. Our brothers in the Italy and France put out some high-quality fly fishing pubs these days; why we have so much garbage in the US, I don't know. I guess it sells.
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gt05254		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 379 01/07/2009 19:06	I'm there, too. Love the old magazines and journals. I even have some complete copies framed because I like the covers so much. I just gave a batch to my friend Adriano Manocchia; he likes to use them in his still lifes. I'm having a heck of a senior moment, but I do believe somewhere around here 2 of the framed magazines have covers painted by William Herndon Foster; one a grouse, one a woodcock. Boy, those were the days. "Hunting and Fishing", I think that was the magazine I gave him. Even had bird dog articles by Henry P. Davis. I could sit for days thumbing through them. Oh, wait, that's right, I have! ,
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Flyman615	Adriano	#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3031 01/07/2009 20:53	Mr. gt05254: Not to hijack the thread, but Adriano is one of my favorite artists. I've owned his print of Muleshoe Bend on the Firehole for many years and I still love gazing at it. Please give him my best. Regards, Scott
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FWdB		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 198 01/08/2009 03:20	By coincidence I've got my hands on the very first issue of the UK's Trout & Salmon (50s) and found it a very enjoyable read. In Holland you simply don't find any old fly fishing magazines, but I'm certainly going to look for them in car-boots etc. when on holiday in England and Scotland later this year. Wilfred de Bruijn The Lowlands Of Holland
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North country brookie		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 42 01/08/2009 08:56	I like the older magazines myself. No disrespect intended to modern writers or magazines, but how many times can you read about the "latest hot fly pattern", or the "newest secret incredible trout spot"? I really have no intrest in "how to" or "where to" articles, and have stopped subscribing to the magazines because that's all they seem to publish. I want to listen to a story being told. To my way of thinking, Gordon MacQuarrie was about the best at it. And I'm in agreement about the covers too. I love the old illustrations. Much better than the run of the mill huge fish or massive deer pictures we all see on the covers now.
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gt05254		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 380 01/08/2009 09:22	Scott: will do, regarding Adriano. I'll see him today, as a matter of fact. We're going to Somerset together, along with Wally Murray (remember him, guys?) Anyway, also sorry to hijack the thread, albeit momentarily. Well, considering that the three of us are kind of "musty and dusty", maybe it wasn't such a hijack afterall.
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Stomias		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 72 01/08/2009 12:35	Just getting into a new book "Of Prairie, Woods, & Water" Two centuries of Chicago nature writing. Edited by Joel Greenberg. Fascinating essays, many from the 19th century.
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cwfly		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 805 01/08/2009 17:07	Glad to see I am not alone in looking back for journals/magazines to read and enjoy. Charlie
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Armchair Angler		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 148 01/08/2009 18:10	I love the musty dusty stuff! To me that's anything before my time but goes all the way back to the beginning. Just gives a different perspective than modern writings and in some cases you might get a history lesson. FWdB - If your interested, there is a book - Best of Trout and Salmon, published 1994, edited by John Wilshaw. I have it, but haven't read it yet (Its creeping up to the top of the pile.) I also have the Best of Field and Stream; and The Sports Afield Treasury of Fly Fishing. These were great - plus they were terrific introductions to some authors I hadn't yet read. Bob
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Marterius		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 431 01/16/2009 23:55 A Blue Doctor	I have not seen any of the older copies of the journals you mention, but I have a couple of volumes of similar Swedish journals about fishing and hunting from early 20th century which I very much like. Titles are "Jaktmarker & Fiskevatten" (Hunting Grounds and Fishing Waters) and "Från skog och sjö" (From Wood and Lake), the former still in existance. Very little about fly fishing, but still a lot of interesting stuff. Not at least the letters to the editor, as mentioned above. I fondly remember an exchange of letters about if hares ate meat, and someone claimed to have found a rat in hare. Also articles on such topics as the opportunities to shoot and stalk on the European continent during first World War, and views on vermin control that today most likely would make you a criminal even by having nightmares about it. I guess the contrast is what makes in fascinating. Regards, Martin in Sweden Like the hunter, the hawker and the fowler, the fisherman takes life in finding his pleasure. It is reasonable to ask of him that he make it as keen and thorough and satisfying, as productive of growth in himself as he reasonably can. For only then can it be the strong and sensitive pleasure of a civilised man. - Roderick Haig-Brown
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