The Rivers of a Lost Coast blog has a cool audio clip of how anglers coated silk lines with varnish and graphite. [Note: For some reason the audio clip isn't showing up on the direct link. Go to the blog front page and scroll down.]
Tagged: graphite, innovation, old school, Old Timey, Rivers of a Lost Coast, silk line
Via Google Books, now reading Fishing In American Waters by Genio C. Scott, published by Harper & Brothers, 1869. Some highlights: Fish evince no mercy for any living thing which inhabits the waters, and most of the angler’s fishes feed readily on their own broods. Another one: Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing, by An Angler, published by J. Murray 1832 It is a large gaudy fly, and is fit for no part of this pool, except the extremely rough head of the torrent: there I dare say it will take in this state of the waters.
