I don't know how many of you read the UK magazine 'Trout & Salmon' but there has been a very interesting article in the June 2005 edition. It is by Mike Daunt and is very critical of the craze for the exotic feathered salmon flies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I won't go into details except that his condemnation of Francis Francis is very savage. The last sentence in the article is - "The story of the salmon fly merely goes to prove the old adage that 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Francis may have been an essentially decent man but he was also living proof that power demands responsibility."

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