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Voices .-m.*r +- s I s IT down to write an address itself solely to fly fishing. We introduction to our Winter Mary have excerpted two chapters here, "An- A1998 issue, I am fresh from a Orvis Mar- gling as a Medicine" and "Capture of conversation with Richard C. Hoff- bury flies in our col- My First Salmon." I think you'll appre- mann in which we reviewed the page lection. Betts, who rescued ciate both Dawson's voice and counsel. proofs of his book excerpt (see page 2). the flies when he was cleaning out Back to Baja. I was lucky enough to This conversation was one of several the attic of Orvis's old factory building be among the 150 or so who attended we've had in the course of the last back in the mid-196os, has his own his- the second International Festival of month or so, and I enjoyed it thor- torical attachment to the collection of Women Fly Fishers there from Novem- oughly. models used for the color plates in her ber 5 to lo, 1997. I was there represent- One of the most satisfying aspects of 1892 book. You can hear a bit of his ing the Museum as a member of a pub- this job is beginning to know the au- voice in "Some of Marbury's Favorite lications panel led by former editor thors-dealing not only with the voice Bass and Fancy Lake Flies." Margot Page. Another member was of a written work, but also with the And Jiirgen Preylowski, that fabu- Lyla Foggia, an author whose book, author's more personal voice through lous designer and art director from Reel Women: The World of Women Who letters and phone conversations. Occa- Diisseldorf, is back this issue with "Dr. Fish, was excerpted in the Spring 1996 sionally, I even get to meet one in person H. C. Alexander Behm and the Behm issue. We spoke many times by phone (as I did in Baja in November-more on Fly." Whenever I receive an envelope working on that issue, so it was great to that later). from Mr. Preylowski, I can count on a meet face to face. The conference was a The authors who have contributed photographic treasure and an interest- wonderful place to network, and many to this issue are enthusiastic about fly- ing letter. This time, Preylowski shares participants expressed interest in the fishing history, care deeply about their some excerpts from the diary of Behm, Museum and its mission. I encourage subjects, and share their enthusiasm which he unearthed while doing re- women authors to write about fly-fish- through their delightful voices. We are search in Behm's hometown of Kiel in ing history and to submit their work to happy to present an excerpt here from 1983. Apparently the Behm Fly is the The American Fly Fisher. Richard C. Hoffmann's new book, Fish- only one other than the Max von dem Finally, I'd like to announce that the er's Craft & Lettered Art: Tracts of Fish- Borne Fly that bears a German's name. journal is accepting advertising begin- ing from the End of the Middle Ages. The Professor Hoffmann is back in the pic- ning with the Spring 1998 issue. There first section, "A Collection of Popular ture here as well: he translated this will be a limited amount of mace allot- Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey," is an piece from the original German. (The ted for this per issue, and we will accept analysis of the second part, "Tegernsee authors are even talking to each other!) black-and-white ads only. Rates are Fishing Advice," which Professor Hoff- We include a voice from the past as $800 for a full page, $475 for a half mann translated from the original man- well-that of George Dawson, who hap- page, and $300 for one-third page (ver- uscript object. pens to be represented by the familiar tical). For more information, contact John Betts, longtime friend of the engraving on the masthead and back Gary Tanner at the Museum. Museum, immediately helped us out cover. In 1876, he published Pleasures of KATHLEENACHOR when we wanted some copy to go with Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and the photo feature of a selection of the Salmon, the first book in America to THEAMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLYFISHING Preserving the Heritage Journal of4the American Museum of Fly Fishing of Fly Fishing WINTER 1998 VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 TRUSTEES E. M. Bakwin Walter T. Matia Michael Bakwin Janet Mavec Fishers' Craft & Lettered Art. ..................2 Foster Bam Wayne Nordberg Paul Bofinger Michael B. Osborne Richard C. Hofimann Donn Byrne, Sr. Allan K. Poole James H. Carey Pamela B. Richards Some of Marbury's Favorite Bass and Roy D. Chapin, Jr. Tom Rosenbauer Fancy Lake Flies. ........................11 Peter Corbin Robert G. Scott Thomas N. Davidson James Spendiff John Betts Charles Ferree Arthur Stern Reed Freyermuth John Swan Dr. H. C. Alexander Behm and the Behm Fly. .......20 Duncan Grant Richard G. Tisch Jiirgen E Preylowski Gardner L. Grant David H. Walsh James H. Hunter Richard J. Warren (translated by Richard C. Hofimann) Woods King I11 Joe Wells James C. Woods The Pleasures of Angling ....................24 George Dawson TRUSTEES EMERITI G. Dick Finlay David B. Ledlie Museum News. ..........................29 W. Michael Fitzgerald Leon L. Martuch William Herrick Keith C. Russe!l Contributors ............................31 Robert N. Johnson Paul Schullery Stephen Sloan OFFICERS ON THE COVER: Illustration from "How to catch fish and birds by President Richard G. Tisch hand. ..," an early printed manual published in 1498 by Mathis Hupfuff Vice Presidents Arthur Stern in Strasbourg. Richard C. Hoffmann includes this image in the first chap- Pamela B. Richards ter of his new book, Fishers' Craft & Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from David H. Walsh the End of the Middle Ages. An excerpt of the book begins on page 2. Treasurer James H. Carey Secretary James C. Woods STAFF Executive Director Gary Tanner The American Fly Fiiher is published Administration Marianne Kennedy four times a year by the Museum at P.O. Box 42, Manchester, Vermont 05254. Publication dates are winter, spring, summer, and fall. Membership dues Include the cost of the Events Q Membership Paula M. Welch journal ($30) and are tax deductible as provided for by law. Membership rates are listed in the back of each Issue. All letters, manuscripts, photographs, and materials intended for puhlicat~on in the journal should be sent to THE AMERICAN FLY FISHER the Museum. The Museum and journal are not responsible far unsolicited manuscripts, drawings, photographic Editor Kathleen Achor material, or memorabilia. The Museum cannot accept respons~hility for statements and interpretations that are Design Q Production Randall Rives Perkins wholly the author's. Unsolicited manuscripts cannot be returned unless postage is provided. Contributions to The Copy Editor Sarah May Clarkson American Fly Fisher are to be considered gratuitous and the property of the Museum unless otherwise requested Consulting Editor Margot Page by the iontributar. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: ContributingEditor PaulSchullery History and Life. Copyr~ght0 1998, the Amer~canMuseum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont 05254. Orlglnal material appearing may not be reprinted without prior permission. Second Class Permit postage paid at Manchester Vermont 05254 and additional offices (USPS 057410). The American Fly Fisher (ISSN 0884.3562) POSTMASTER:Send address changes to The Amencan Fly Ftsher, P.O. Box 42, Manchester, Vermont 05254. WINTER 1998 1 Fishers' Craft 6Lettered Art RICHARDC. HOFFMANN'Smost recent book, Fishers' Craft & Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages, was released late last year by University of Toronto Press. The book contains editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Professor Hofjcmann discusses the history offishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and eco- logic considerations necessary for an examination and understanding of these fishing manuals. He further explores how continental fishing traditions were conveyed from oral craft practice into printed culture and proposes that these manuals demonstrate a lively and complex interac- tion between written texts and popular culture. In the book, the tracts are presented in the origi- nal languages with facing-page translations. We are pleased to excerpt the second of the three tracts discussed, "Tegernsee Fishing Advice." To follow in the style of Fishers' Craft & Lettered Art, we first present excerpts from Hofmann's analysis of the manuscript object, then excerpts of the translation of the text itself: EDITOR A Collection of Popular Wisdom from Tegernsee Abbey ONKS AND PEASANTS share words from the essentially oral peasant structions for making a tapered horse- responsibility for a text known culture of the Bavariari and Austrian hair line and for using it with rod and M only from thirteen leaves of a mountains, and thus reports on fishing bait for trout and grayling (fols. single manuscript volume. It is not a methods otherwise little documented. 101r-102~).The discussion turns into a whole book, not a booklet, and not even After preliminary orientation, this in- miscellany (fols. lozv-logr) of bait and titled; an accurate label is simply "Te- troductory essay works from the physi- other recipes, one of which is attributed gernsee Fishing Advice," or TFA for cal object to signs of cultural relation- to a Martin Vorchel. Finally appears a sh0rt.l TFA incorporates material from ships and then to the substance of the genuine title-"Wie man visch fahen Kobel's 1493 booklet, "How to Catch text.2 A portion of the new edition and solln-for fols.
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