Trout Fishing in the Catskills - Softcover

Van Put, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162914407X ISBN 13: 9781629144078

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2014

Synopsis

Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and demise from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species. Sweeping in its scope, Trout Fishing in the Catskills tells a thorough tale of the often tumultuous history of fishing in the Catskills. With a scope of over a century, Van Put tells of the Catskill's frontier fishing beginnings and tracks the rise, fall, and eventual revival of the fisheries.

Throughout, this is a history of people and methods as well as rivers, and there are profiles of Theodore Gordon, Art Flick, Harry and Elsie Darbee, Sparse Grey Hackle, and more. No serious trout fisherman, in any part of the country, will want to miss this pioneering portrait of a seminal region in American angling history.

About this title

From the Author:

has worked as a fisheries professional with New York State since 1969. An avid fly fisherman for more than fifty years, he wrote the important The Beaverkill, and his articles have appeared in The Conservationist, Trout, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod & Reel, and elsewhere.

About the Author:

Ed Van Put, an avid fly fisherman for more than fifty years, worked as a fisheries professional with New York State for over 45years, and authored several essential books on fly fishing and its history & development in America. His first book, The Beaverkill:The History of a River and its People, first released in 1996 and later expanded & revised in 2016, is the definitive book on the famous river. The follow-up Trout Fishing in the Catskills received similar acclaim as a must-read expansive exploration of the development of the Catskills as America's premiere fishing destination. His articles have appeared in The Conservationist, Trout, Fly Fisherman, Fly Rod &Reel, and elsewhere. He lives in the Catskills with his wife Judy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 162914407X
• ISBN 13: 9781629144078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 438