Royal Coachman: Adventures in the Fly Fisher's World

204 Pages·2007·1.32 MB·English

by  Paul Schullery

Royal Coachman
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Royal Coachman
Adventures in the Fly Fisher’s World
Paul Schullery
illustrated by Marsha Karle
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque
©  by Paul Schullery
All rights reserved. Published 
Reprinted from the original  edition by Fireside, New York.
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schullery, Paul.
Royal coachman : adventures in the fly fisher’s world /
Paul Schullery. — st ed.
p. cm.
isbn ---- (pbk. : alk. paper)
. Fly fishing. . Flies, Artificial. I. Title.
SH.S 
.'—dc
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cover and text illustrations by Marsha Karle
book and cover design and type composition
by Kathleen Sparkes
This book is typeset using Minion /, .
Display type is also Minion Family.
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For Bud
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I shall be content to write the rambling, idle,
quite unpractical sort of book about fishing
that I myself like to read by the fire in winter
when the brooks are sealed, or by the stream
on drowsy noons—winding into and through
the inexhaustible lore of angling as a lazy
brook goes through a meadow where the grass
is heavy and the reeds are high, pausing and
deepening here and there but soon running
free again with a glitter of sun on the stickle.
—Odell Shepard, Thy Rod and Thy Creel
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Contents
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chapter one
All the Young Men with Fly Rods 1
chapter two
The Fisherman’s Chaucer 19
chapter three
Early American Trout Fishing 27
chapter four
Carlisle Mornings 43
chapter five
Battenkill Summers 59
chapter six
Dry-Fly Culture 75
chapter seven
Royal Coachman and Friends 91
chapter eight
Arts and Crafts 103
chapter nine
Hendricksons 115
chapter ten
Civilized Fishing 131
chapter eleven
Occasions for Hope in the
Hook and Bullet Press 145
chapter twelve
Trout Family Values 159
chapter thirteen
Now I Are One 173
chapter fourteen
Cumberland Dreams 183
Acknowledgments 189