Streamcraft: An Angling Manual [Stream Craft]

xii, pp. 264 pp. Green boards with gilt titles. Illustrated, including 10 color plates. CONTENTS: Dedication; Preface; Selection, Care, and Rigging of the Rod; The Art of Casting; Trout Habits; Lures and Their Use, Including Some Stream Entomology; The Angler's Flies and How to Tie Them; Description of Trout-Fly Patterns; Appendix: Index and Classification According to Body Color of Described Artificial Flies; Memoranda Pages. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. George Parker Holden was a luminary of the American angling world in the early twentieth century, who wrote the angling manual ""Streamcraft"" in 1919 and numerous articles for the Angler's Club of New York Bulletin. His milestone book from 1920, ""The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo,"" is credited with starting the home rodbuilding movement.