How Alexander Wanless battled to get fly-fishing with a fixed-spool accepted, and the ideas that this pioneering writer tried to popularise.
The very earliest days of postcards, and how they were the equivalent of text messaging at the start of the 1900s.
A superb new book on Frederic Halford looks set to become the definitive work on the man described as the the high priest of dry fly fishing.
Plus: PLUS Fears on the closure of Izaak Walton’s cottage; a rod that sold for £20,000; fears that the US may have no national tackle auctions; doubts over flies sold as the work on Megan Boyd; a classic new Aerial bearing Fred J Taylor’s name; collecting catalogues; the New York drinking bar that had its own fishing club (for a very short while); plus much, much more