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Journal of the Amerimn Museum of Fly Fishing WINTER 2~03 VOLUME 19 NUMBER I Trout Memories and Pike Tales caught and released my first trout in April 1989 on the Beaverlull. My memory of this is pretty good, I think, Ialthough it's not as vivid as perhaps it should be. I know the date because my husband saved the black stonefly nymph and framed it in a shadowbox-an act of historical documentation close to the date of the actual event. When we lived in the D.C. area, we'd sometimes drive up to Big Hunting Creek, a favorite haunt of my high school days. I must have occasionally caught fish there, but I can't remember any particular fish. Maybe I didn't catch any. What I remember is being happy on the familiar creek, away from the city. What if I did vividly remember these fishing trips? Would I be right in their detail? How much of memory is what actual- ly happened, and how much of it is remembering the story we tell ourselves about what happened? How do the details change over time? Paul Schullery was doing a lot of fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park thirty years ago when he first began reading By noting the first published claim of pike not taking the about the sport's history. On the must-read list was Edward R. artificial fly as bait (Robert Venables, The Experience'd Angler, Hewitt, who, it turned out, had written quite the account of 1662), Frederick Buller makes the argument that people have fishing the park in the early 1880s. Schullery was surprised to obviously been trying the method for at least 341 years. His find that some of Hewitt's "facts" weren't exactly right. When article cites the many instances of claims against this method he went back to those writings more recently, he found the of catching pike, most of which he considers a passing along of account even more wrong than he remembered. Of course, misinformation from authority to authority. It wasn't until Hewitt wrote about his trip more than thirty years after the 1800, with Samuel Taylor's Angling in All Its Branches, that an fact. author made a personal claim of having caught a pike on the Because the history of Yellowstone is so well documented, fly. Buller also reviews some mentions of dressings of pike flies. it's fairly easy to check people's stories. Schullery has done this, A particularly amusing reaction to one of these flies was noted and he presents some of his findings in "Edward in by a correspondent to the Field, who wrote, "But the leadng Wonderland: Yellowstone Recollections of an Angling Great." features of this remarkable insect were its eyes, formed of two The article begins on page 2. enormous glass beads, and calculated, as I thought to strike Pike talUTimothvAchor-Hoch terror into the breast of any fish which caught sight of it; even phlegmatic Donald (the gillie) fetched a longer breath, and took an even larger pinch of snuff when he saw it." Buller's "Fly Fishing for Pike in Britain and Ireland" begins on page 13. Although the Museum offices and exhibit space are still in a physical state of limbo, we've been keeping busy in the field, as usual. Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, was awarded our Heritage Award in November (see page 20). Sporting artist and Museum Trustee Peter Corbin hosted a successful fund- raising weekend of sporting clays and pheasant shooting (page 28). We held dinnerlauctions in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and California, and our trustees met here in Manchester in November. There's also a book review by Paul Schullery you should check out (page 22). Am I forgetting anything? American THEAMERICAN MUSEUM Fly Fisher OF FLYFISHING Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing Preserving the Heritage WINTER 2003 VOLUME 29 NUMBER 1 of Fly Fishing TRUSTEES Edward in Wonderland: Yellowstone Recollections of E. M. Dakwin William C. McMaster, M.D. an Angling Great ...........................2 Michael Hakwin Iohn Mundt Paul Schullery Foster Ram 1)avid Nichols Pamcla Bates Wayne Nordberg Fly Fishing for Pike in Britain and Ireland. ..........13 Steven Benardete Michacl B. Osborne I'aul Bofinger Stephen M. I'eet Frederick Buller Duke Buchan 111 Leigh H. Perkins Pcter Corbin Allan K. I'oole 2002 Heritage Award. .......................20 William 1. Dreyer John Ra~io George R. Gibson III Roger liiccardi Book Review: J. I. Merritt's Trout Dreams: Gallery of Gardner L. GI-ant William Salladin Fly-Fishing Profiles. ......................... 22 James Hardman Ernest Schwiebert Paul Schullery Lynn L. Hitschler Robcrt G. Scott Arthur Kaemnier, M.D. James A. Spendiff Museum News ...........................24 \Voods King 111 John Swan Ja~iiesE. Lutton 111 Richard G. Tisch The Friends of Corbin Shoot. .................. 28 Walter T. Matia David 14. Walsh James C. Woods Contributors ............................. 30 TRUSTEES EMERITI Charles R. Eichel llavid H. Lcdlie ON THE COVER: Yellowstone Lake's hot spring known as Fishing Cone, where G. Dick Finlay Leon L. Martuch former park visitors enjoyed an activity no longer practiced today. From W. Michael Fitzgerald Keith C. Russell "Edward in Wonderland," which begins on page 2. National Park Service photo. William Herrick Paul Scliullery Robert N. Johnson Stephen Sloan Tlii,Aii,r,imo Fly Fis1zt.r (ISSN oKS4-ijhli IS ptlbli\hrd OFFICERS fhrtirncs a yr.,r b> the Rloscum ,,I P.O. Bor 42, ~lanchcstcr,Varnont 05254. I'uhlication datcs are wintn, \pring, suanmer, dnd fall. Me~nhersllipdue\ ~nclodethc cost 01 ~hc Cllnirnlnr~oJrhe Boord Robert G. Scott lourndl lslj) dnrl i~rctas dcductiblr a* prrxidcd for h? la\\. hlrmhr~.sh~pr.,tcs ,,re li\ted in the h,~kIIC each ~suc. Presirfeilt [)avid H. 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Edward in Wonderland: Yellowstone Recollections of an Angling Great by Paul Schullery The Yellowstone cutthroat trout would have been the fish encountered by Edward Hewitt on his 1882 visit. It was thisfish that he caught in such larze numbers as the party traveled up the ello ow stone Valleyfrom~illings, ~ontana, into the park. He would have continued catching them in the Yellowstone River drainage in the park, though his account does not explain clearly where all his party traveled.