10-14-2008, 07:53 PM
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Hey there BFS do you know where fly fishing got it's start in the US? I Use to live less than 2 miles from the Neversink River. [fishin]
The Neversink River may not be the most productive trout river, but it is certainly the most historic. Situated roughly 100 miles north of the George Washington Bridge, the Neversink was fished extensively during the early 1900s by historical anglers like Theodore Gordon, inventor of dry flies like the Quill Gordon, and Edward Hewitt, inventor of the Bivisible. While fly fishing began in Scotland and was first practiced in the chalk streams of England, Gordon pioneered dry fly fishing in the United States and Hewitt first explored the concept of fishing with nymphs. Both of these men perfected their craft on the Neversink River of New York State.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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Hey there BFS do you know where fly fishing got it's start in the US? I Use to live less than 2 miles from the Neversink River. [fishin]The Neversink River may not be the most productive trout river, but it is certainly the most historic. Situated roughly 100 miles north of the George Washington Bridge, the Neversink was fished extensively during the early 1900s by historical anglers like Theodore Gordon, inventor of dry flies like the Quill Gordon, and Edward Hewitt, inventor of the Bivisible. While fly fishing began in Scotland and was first practiced in the chalk streams of England, Gordon pioneered dry fly fishing in the United States and Hewitt first explored the concept of fishing with nymphs. Both of these men perfected their craft on the Neversink River of New York State.[/size][/#008000][/font]
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