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And now I come to books which are nothing if not practical. Of these, Mr. F. M. Halford's “Floating Flies and How to Dress Them,” and his “Dry Fly
Fishing in Theory and Practice,” command the first place, as being, within certain limits, the best books on fishing with the artificial fly ever written.
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The response from the public to this impressive book was a first very favorable. Halford's scrapbook contains twenty-seven review notices, in which positive and gratifying adjectives abound: 'Practical, and at the same time delightfully-written', 'Thorough, clear and interesting', 'His almost
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provides an in-depth study of nearly 100 duns and spinners in the
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Floating Flies and How To Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern
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Floating Flies and How To Dress Them. A Treatise on the Most Modern
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287:(2002), Tony Hayter says of
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