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Flv Fisherman The American Flv4 Fisher Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing SPRING 2001 VOLUME 27 NUMBER 2 Gordon, More Gordon, and Dressing Flies by Hand An illustration from Theodore Gordon's copy of The Book of the All-round Angler (1888) by John Bickerdyke. ow that I live in Vermont, it seems strange that I don't and, like all of us, his changing opinions about particular rods get over to the Catskills to fish. I fish right around over time. Scott also wonders about a rod that Gordon did not N home or in the Adirondacks. I take the occasional trip write about: a Payne rod that he is said to have passed on to his to a far-off destination to wet a line. Mostly, I work, and think friend Herman Christian. Scott's article begins on page 8. about fishing more than I actually get to fish. Reading "The Presence of Theodore Gordon," on the other I've been fishing in the Catskills only once. I was living in hand, gives insight into why Gordon is so beloved and why he Washington, D.C., and my husband and I took a long weekend has become a mythic figure to so many. The words Gordon left to explore the Beaverkill, the Willowemoc, the Esopus. It was behind are able to conjure a living presence for author Gordon the end of April and much less springlike than we expected. At Wickstrom, who recounts details of Gordon's biography in the time, I doubt I could have told you much-if anything- light of his importance to American fly-fishing and fly-tying about Theodore Gordon. But I caught my first trout on that history. The two articles gave the Museum an opportunity to trip, seventy-four years after Gordon died, almost to the day. include some photos of Theodore Gordon items from our own My proud husband framed the black stonefly nymph in a collection. Wickstrom's piece begins on page 2. shadowbox. Although Gordon used a vise for tying flies, apparently he Twelve years have passed since that life-changing event, and could tie by hand as well. Few people tie by hand today, but now, as editor of a fly-fishing journal, I am happy to devote two author John Betts can and does (he also makes his own hooks, articles of this spring issue to the famed Theodore Gordon, dry- leaders, lines, reels, and rods). Until the end of the eighteenth fly angler of the Catskills. Both pieces give a bit of the history of century, almost all flies were dressed this way. In "Truly Hand- this figure's life, as well as the authors' own interpretations of Tied Flies," Betts reviews what it was like to tie flies 150 years that history as they have found it. As Gordon Wickstrom states ago with the materials and tools available. Then he applies in his article, "The details of Gordon's biography are difficult, some of the old procedures to dress a fly. Try hand-tying the largely memorial, and little of it documentary." Cassard, using directions that would appear in earlier days. The two pieces are delightfully different in tone. Michael Betts's article begins on page 18. Scott, in "Theodore Gordon and Bamboo Rods," attempts to We welcome you to the spring issue and issue an invitation distance himself enough from the mythology of Gordon to as well. Come to the Museum May 19 for our annual festival report on Gordon the man-even Gordon the curmudgeon. weekend and dinnerlauction (for details, see announcement But the focus of his article is really Gordon's writings about on page 26). We would love to see you here. fishing bamboo rods: the rods Gordon owned, his ideas about KATHLEENACHOR what constituted a good rod, his words about casting rods, EDITOR OF FLYFISHING Preserving the Heritage of Fly Fishing SPRING 2001 VOLUME 27 NUMBER 2 TRUSTEES E. M. Bakwin Walter T. Matia Michael Bakwin John Mundt Foster Bam Wayne Nordberg The Presence of Theodore Gordon. ..............2 Steven Benardete Michael B. Osborne Gordon M. Wickstrom Paul Bofinger Leigh H. Perkins Donn Byrne Sr. Allan K. Poole James H. Carey Robert D. Priest Theodore Gordon and Bamboo Rods .............8 Roy D. Chapin Jr. John Rano Michael Scott Peter Corbin Roger Riccardi Thomas N. Davidson Pamela B. Richards Truly Hand-Tied Flies ......................18 William J. Dreyer Ernest Schwiebert Charles Ferree Robert G. Scott John Betts Duncan Grant James A. Spendiff Irene Hunter John Swan Museum News ..........................28 Gardner L. Grant Richard G. Tisch Arthur Kaemmer, M.D. David H. Walsh Contributors ...........................32 Woods King 111 Richard J. Warren Paines C. Woods o N THE COVER: Theodore Gordon with an unidentified woman, prob- TRUSTEES EMERITI ably fishing on the Neversink. G. Dick Finlay David B. Ledlie W. Michael Fitzgerald Leon L. Martuch William Herrick Keith C. Russell Robert N. Johnson Paul Schullery Stephen Sloan OFFICERS President Robert G. Scott vice Presidents Pamela B. Richards James A. Spendiff David H. Walsh The Amerimn Fly Fxhrr is published Treasurer James H. Carey four times ,I ycar by thc Museuln at PO. Box 42, Manchesler, Vermont 05254. Secretary James C. Woods Publication dates are winter, spring, summer, and fall Membership dues includc the cost of thc journal ($30) and ale tax deductible as prowded for by law. Mernbersh~prates are ltsted in Lhe back of each issue. All letten, manusinpts, photographs, and materials intended for publication in thc journal ihould he sent to the hluseum. The Ivluseurn and journal are not respon~lblefor unsolrclted manuscnpls, drdw~ngs,photographic STAFF material, or memorabilia. The Museum callnot accept responsibility for st,itemciits and lntcrpictatlons that are Executive Director Gary Tannel. wholly the author's Unsolicited manuscripts cannot he returned unless postage is provided. Contrihi~tion~to The Events e5 Membership Diana Siebold Amenmn Fly Fisher- are to be considered graluitous and the property of the Museum unless othenvlie requcated Art Director John Price by the contrtbulor Articles appearing in this ,ournal arc abstracted and ~ndenedIn H~stor~calAbsnart, and America- Hzstory and Life. Copyright O 2001, the American Museurn of Fly Fishing, Manchcster, Vcrn~ant05254. Orlginal Special Projects Sara Wilcox matrrlal appearing m'ty not he reprinted without prlor pernussion. Second Class Pernlit posvagr paid at Admin./Advertising Toney Pozek Mdnchester, Ver~nanr 05254 and add~tional offices (USPS 057410). The Amertran bly Flsher (ISSN 0884-3562) Collection Manager Yoshi Akiyama POSTMXSTFR:Send dddress changes to The Anicircan Fly Fisher, P.O. Ron 42, Manchester,Ve~mont05254 EMAIL: dll?rf@Logelhelnet rnmurh: rnv.amff.com THE AMERICAN FLY FISHER Editor Kathleen Achor Design el- Production John Price We welcome editorial contributions to The American Fly Fisher. Copy Editor Sarah May Clarkson For a copy of our contributor guidelines, write to us, or visit our website at www.amff.com and go to the journal section. SPRING 2001 The Presence of Theodore Gordon by Gordon M. Wickstrom . HIS SYLVAN LIFE IS OUR LOST WORLD. -John ~c~onald' It is a bitter cold winter's night and I am far away from the cheerful lights of town or city. The north wind is shrieking and tearing at this lonely house, like some evil demon wishful to carry it away bodily or shatter it completely. The icy breath of this demon penetrates through every chink and crevice, and the wood-burning stove is my only companion. It is on nights such as these, after the turn of the year, that . we return in spir- it to the time of trout rising in the pools. We remember many days of glorious sport, and then somehow our thoughts take a turn and leap forward. Spring is near, quite near, and it will soon be time to go fishing. -Theodore Gordon on the Neversink, 1906~ N THE FALLING DARKNESS of a winter afternoon, I sat Living his "sylvan life" in his beloved Catsltill Mountains, reading the notes and letters of America's foremost fly fish- Theodore Gordon devoted nearly his entire adult life to fishing erman, Theodore Gordon. His personality, his voice, his the fly for trout. He was to become a mythic figure, a man spirit-whatever one calls it-gained on me by the page and by whose life is for us a glimpse back into what seems a little gold- the minute until, in a wonderful way, my reading became what en age. In our myth-dreaming, he models the ideal American seemed Gordon's very presence. The experience was so com- angler's life. pelling that it brought me to my feet, book in hand, amazed Gordon was born to fortunate circumstances in Pittsburgh, and feeling something like the very touch of that elegant, frag- 18 September 1854. A small and delicate child who lost his ile, reclusive genius of the trout fly. father almost at once. he nevertheless became enthralled with What I'd known of Gordon before, now, in this instant of fishing, especially during summers spent on the Pennsylvania his "~resence."seemed fragmentarv" and unfocused. I knew limestone streams around Carlisle. holidavs which his father's that I must try better to understand this extraordinary man legacy provided. who more than anv other "gave a distinctlv American cast to The details of Gordon's biography are difficult, largely fishing the fly and suggested new and native ways of thinking memorial, and little of it documentary. Several of his contem- and feeling about the experience. poraries knew a bit about him, dined out on it, and passed it on, but apparently none knew Gordon's whole story.
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