Oldest book of fly patterns discovered in a Benedictine Monk’s Prayer Book. Watch the video.
http://www.thefield.co.uk/fishing/oldest-fishing-book-in-the-world-watch-the-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.
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.
Think I’ll just stick with tartar sauce for my fish. That rotenone can leave a bad taste.
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.