In 'Tying Emergers' by Jim Schollmeyer & Ted Leeson, the introduction mentions that it has only been in the last half century that fly fishers really started showing an interest in emergers. Ernest Schiewbert wrote about matching the hatch and other fly fishers/authors started publishing as well, authors like Dave Whitlock, Fred Arbona, Mike Lawson, Gary Boirger, Al Caucci, Bob Nastasi, Gary Lafontaine, Rene Harrop, Doug Swisher and Carl Richards. Most of this attention to emergers has taken place in the last two decades, more or less.

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