Fly Fisher in Memoriam
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The American Fly Fisher In Memoriam the trout of the Reaverkill and the Bsopus. It was an the Esopus he met klewitt and it was there in the Catskill Mountains he came to know his beloved Midg rod. From then on the Gingich way of fishing was with the lightest of bamboo. the finest of leadcrs and the smallest of flies. He became a 20120 man - limiting hirnscIf to a 20 foot leader and a fly no larger than size 20. Ire was considered one of the greatcst Eng. IIe read Walton once a year and thcrc was no one mure knowlerlgeabIe concerning the ancicnt angling classics. His many artides and books en tl~es~tl>ject attcst to his lcarning and scholarship. Undoubtedly, this sensitivity to Iiterature caericcl over to ksqrtirt.. In Arnold ah thored 9 books including those on fishing. For ovw two decades he willingly pave to the causes of conservation serving as a Dircctor and Trust- ARB O CD GINCRIClil ee of such organbations as the Theudort: Gordon Club December 5, 1903 - July 9, 6916 of New York and the national Federation of Fly Fish- amen. At the annual mcctings of thcse societies, and President of The Museum of American FZy Fishing our own Museum meetings, no onc scrvetl more ably 1974 - '1976 and with such charming gracc as a Master of Cerc- monies. Arnold Ginpich was the weU tempered No words can convey the sense of loss due to the angler. Perhaps his coining of the phrase was prophct- passing of a good companion. Arnold Gingrich served ic for in the ending of his book of the same title, be us wcll, with devotion and selfsacrifice, first as a wm te: Truwee charting the course of a beginning Museum, "Actually though being well read is part of the then as our third Prcsiden t. llis inspirational lcadcr- process, an anglcr is tcrnpmed chiefly by practise ship gave rhc Museum a hcsrt beat which was strong, and expcriencc, by learning and attempting: to reach steady and vibrant, sounding loud and clcac whcrcver the successively higher goals of his sport, and thus ac- fly fisher's gathered. quiring through any amount of*disappointment and In time all great men have their biographers and frustration, the satisfaction of knowing that he is do- Arnold Cingich will have his. They will begin with ing thc simplest thing in the hardcst way possible. his birth in Michigan, his early love of reading and Tlren, be hc never so churlish, short in his patience, music, his graduation as a Phi Beta Kappa from UM hateful to his kids, mean to his mother, no matter at Ann Arbor, and then the editorship of Apparel what - as an angler at Ieast and at last he is well temp- rlrts. Most certainly the biographers who write of his ered. business carcer will ernphaqizc the founcting of Es- "50 saying I will arise and go now. giving you the I quire magzinc and his part in its development. Over fair warning of that long lust little book, 'l%e Arre ojj' ,the years, he turned what was a magazine far gentle- Anglr?~~,'Well, if you hae not apace, I will be at thc men interested in the sartoria1 arts into a literary pub- River hefore you.' May we be we11 met there, and fish lication whose stable of authors included such greats together long and well, until at last we can intone in as Heminpay, Falkner, Steinbeck, H. L. Mcnken, unison with Andrew Lang: Dorothy Parkcr, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee WiIliarns and the many others who were the leading writcrs of "Girdling the grey domain of Death their day. The spectra1 fishes come and go; The biographers who will emphasize his love of The ghosts of mout flit to and fro, fishing will relate the seemingly stFangc circumstance Persephone, fulfiIl my wish, of a boyhood without fishing. The fair rewards start- and grant that In the shades below My phast may land the ghosts of fish!" ed out of Chicap in 1925 with plug and spoon fish- ing for bass. Then camc tEic fly rod and the catastro- And may the deep pools and riffles be flecked phic years as a suffering beginner. Ile notes he was al- with sunshine. Cl~arlesRitz, Arnofd? old friend met him nt rbe River on July 1 I tb. He was 84. An Arnold Gingricb Memorial fs now in the plaa- ning stages. Gifts of rne~~torabiliaand donations ate invited. The American Fly Fisher Published by The Museum of hmerimn FIy Fishing for the pleasurc of the mernbcrship. I SW;ZliMF:l< 19fh Vol, 3., No. 3 ADVlSOKY HOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS I ~ltrnolclG inprich New York, N. Y. RESEARCH Dean Sapc - Part I11 - Thc Years at Canrp Irarmony Dr. Alvii~Grove by David R. Ledlie F. 2 Snntc Collcg~,Pa. ARTICLE Ihirrl Iiall Trnuting on Jcssup's River Ilydr Park, Vt. by Charles Wilkins Wehber - 1852 P- 4 11s. r):ivid R. hcrilic WOMEN'S STUDIES Middlebury. Vt. My Love Affair with Fishing by Nan Emory p. 13 JO~II +r.Orrcllc Sllcrwo{)d, Oregon CLUBS Chicago and thc West - The Blackhawk Club of Leigh I I. IJcrkirls Lakc Koshkonong ,?lar~cItcstcr,Vt. by Emerson Hough p. 14 I Stvr c Kayrilr~itd CAMPING AND TRAVEL Sc:httlc, \\'asliingrt>n Camping the Teton Basin by W. F. Raillie-Grohmao - I882 p. 16 Xlrs. Aniw Secur :\rlirigtctn, Vt. h HTICLE I The Anglcr's Tournament - IS89 p. 20 II~I~I:I~LIZal~itcr Ih~rsct,Vt. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 23 I MUSEUM AFFASRS p. 24 Austin S. Hogan Can~brirlp,Mass. SPECIAL ISSUE - FALL 1976 PREVIEW lnsidc Rack Covcr Kesewtrch Rc Liaison '1'111+: r\,lllllZICr\N FLY FISIII~K,thu rriagaxino of 'THE rMU5EU.W OF AMERICAN FLY FISIIING, Er p~ih- listrrtl t~isarturl~11.y thc hl USE U,M at llanchcstcr. Vcrn~ont05 251. Subscription is Srcc with p:rymcnt of rnc~iillursliipclues. All ct)rrcs,,untlcnce, let rcrs, tnan~~scripts.photographs ant! 11ixtcrial5shut11 J bc forwarded carr ,,f tll~C1lr;rtor. >1LISlr~I,\l and MACAZlN E arc not rcsponsihle for ~~nsu[icirmI~na~it~scri[rrs, rlt-aw- ings. ~ditjtographs,nlatcrials ur nlcrllrtrabilia. Tt~eMr~scum cannot acccpt respunsihility for ctateii1ent5 and int~r~rctatirlns\vE~icfi arc \\.Ilr,lfy tllc at~tlicbr'r.Unsolicited rnantlscripts cannot he rctitrned unlc~spostagc ii.: ~wt~virlccl.Iluntril~u titrnr to TI3 1. AA1EKICAN FLY FISltIiK arc to bc consi~leredgratuitous and bccomc thc prupcrcy of the hluscum unlcss uthcrwisc reqimc~ted t,y thc uon~ributor.I'ublication dates arc Jan~~ary, April, Jrl!? and Oct~~bcr.Eritcrutt as Second Clnsr mattcr at the U. S. Post Qfficc, !ilanclicrtcr. \'crrr~onr. @ Copyright 1976, 'I t 11:. AMEIIICi%N FLY ITISIIEK. hianchestcr, Vermont 05251. Origiilal matcriat all- pccrii~grliily not hc rcl~rit~tcdn itltr,ttt prir>rpcrn~issir>tl. C1< 1I)ATS : .Z~~ISCLIII~yhutos t,y Dar id R. Lvdlic. Drar\'ings by Austin S. Hogan, Curator. Printing Iry 'Chru\ipwr~,Inc., hklrtchcstcr Center, Vcrnlont Dean Sage Part 111-TheYears At Camp Harmony (1879- 1902) by David B. Ledlie - SarA P. Sage playing a salmon. The guides r (from left to right) 1 are Alex Marchand and Jacques Vicaire. According to a letter written by Dean Sagc to David Deug- cooking, howcvcr, is nprn to criticism. a< an English noble- Iasl , (dated July 29, IS78) Sapc again visited the Kistigouche in man whom I met on rhc rivcr a yrar or two apt) evidently 1878. thought, as he took with him in addition to a valct and ctrrrb "I have, according to the custom of men, been taking a closet (a handy inlplc~ncntft)r thr. wt~ods)a French cook. pleasure trip. lcaving my wife at home to enjoy the company The latter's hat1 rhc first of his genius sn much subjr~edafter of the children. My expedition was to thc Ristigouchc Hiver 2 or 3 days of black flicr, midges, and rnr~squitues, which in Her Majesty's late Province of New Rrunswick where 1 happened to he very had just rhcn, that I heard lie had to re- passed a fortnight in the best salmon fishing I ever had." sign his office in favor of an Indian, and his Lordship st~ffer- and in the same letter: ed so much from thc sarnc callsr that hc made his valer do "The Ri~tigouchcis one of the most beautiFu1 rivcrs 3 cvcr the fishing and dcsucndctl rhc rivcs after a $hart stay mud^ saw and secms to my prejudiced eye to surpass the river Aine disgusted with thc sport and thc cuunrry." in thc wild grandeur of its surrounding sccncry. We ascend it This i~ the first rccord wc have of vagc's rcturn tu the Risti- in birch canoes, each poled by two Indians much Fonder of gouchc since thc "first trip" in 1875. Wc arc confident, however whiskey than of scalping but who gcncrally, with proper that Dean Sage did not r~~issthc opportunity to rcturn fur the treatment, do very well, and are ardent sportsmen. Their fishing of 1876 and 1877. Sagc ~ncntionsill Chapter I1 of Tl>r K irf~golrchrarzd Its Sn1111onI,rsbin~ that prior ro thc construct- Between 1877 until his death in 1902 Dean Sagc rarricd ion uf Camp klarmuny, his cntotrrape "canipcd out" whcn visit- on an extensive and lively currespondence with David Douglas ing the Ristigouche and that apparently this was thc modus op- of Edinburgh, Scotland. Douglas, a buuk pubIisher of somc rc- crandi for several scasons.