Oldest book of fly patterns discovered in a Benedictine Monk's Prayer Book. Watch the video.
http://www.thefield.co.uk/fishing/ol...e-report-26927
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Oldest book of fly patterns discovered in a Benedictine Monk's Prayer Book. Watch the video.
http://www.thefield.co.uk/fishing/ol...e-report-26927
Amazing discovery. Pages of fly patterns from 1450 AD. I wonder where that book has been the last 500 years...
125,000 GBP and it can be yours. Call it about $212,000 US. Who's gonna rush out and by it to scan it for a series of FotW articles? :)
I'm out, I don't speak/read Middle High German with an Austrian dialect twist.
Regards,
Ed
someone is bound to publish a copy--with translation! stay tuned...
Thanks Silver....very interesting. I'm with the fellow in the video who says something to the effect that he thinks folks have been fishing forever.
I can't help but think Native Americans who saw fish rising to insects decided to imitate them with fur and feather as well.......Or any primitive group for that matter.
I kind of agree with the interviewer that native hunter gatherers would use nets if they had already been invented. I know that Native Americans used pisticides from ground and mashed plants to poison the fish and then gather them. I recall that native tribes along the Amazon River Basin did the same thing with barbasco (Lonchacarpus) which contains rotenone.
http://www.primitiveways.com/fish_poison.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_toxins
Think I'll just stick with tartar sauce for my fish. That rotenone can leave a bad taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver Creek
Do you remember the monk with the strange accent who caught all those fish and wouldn't tell anyone what he was using? He had it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Norikane