TE Pritt was the angling editor of The Yorkshire Post when he published Yorkshire Trout Flies in 1885. Only 200 copies of the book were printed. This kindle edition presents Pritt's original text and fly-tying patterns, along with watercolour prints.
It provides fly patterns for each month through the season, how to fish them and when.
If you fish anywhere in the North of England - and particularly if you tie flies - you will find it fascinating to see how it was done in the 19th Century.
Included in the book are chapters on other fishing methods, including upstream worm fishing. Using two hooks. Now why didn't I think of that?
And to anyone who thinks these patterns only work in Yorkshire, perhaps the last word should be left to the man himself:
"It only remains to be said that the illustrations on the following plates have been very carefully copied from flies dressed by various Yorkshire makers. The originals, or others like them, have done service on half the rivers and lakes of England and Scotland, and have never failed to give a satisfactory account of themselves, despite the lugubrious warnings of local hands that “they were no use there”. You will be told this probably on every new river visited; yet may you safely fish Yorkshire flies and laugh to scorn the dismal prophecies of anglers who believe that the trout in their own river differ in their choice of flies from those of any other river in the universe."
It provides fly patterns for each month through the season, how to fish them and when.
If you fish anywhere in the North of England - and particularly if you tie flies - you will find it fascinating to see how it was done in the 19th Century.
Included in the book are chapters on other fishing methods, including upstream worm fishing. Using two hooks. Now why didn't I think of that?
And to anyone who thinks these patterns only work in Yorkshire, perhaps the last word should be left to the man himself:
"It only remains to be said that the illustrations on the following plates have been very carefully copied from flies dressed by various Yorkshire makers. The originals, or others like them, have done service on half the rivers and lakes of England and Scotland, and have never failed to give a satisfactory account of themselves, despite the lugubrious warnings of local hands that “they were no use there”. You will be told this probably on every new river visited; yet may you safely fish Yorkshire flies and laugh to scorn the dismal prophecies of anglers who believe that the trout in their own river differ in their choice of flies from those of any other river in the universe."
