Amazing Lures and Flies Rare and Forgotten Masterpieces of Fishing

Few people know that modern television advertising grew out of early research in bass lures. Or that both WW I soldiers & the Beats were heavily into fly-fishing. Bass lures & trout flies are the product of a rich mixture of folklore & science: the 48 lost masterpieces shown here range from the hand-carved Ugly Stick & one-of-a-kind House Fly to the "neutronic" lures manufactured during the 1920s. From Midnight Rambler & Junior Duck to Speckled Spider & Siberian Huge Fly, this is an amazing exhibit of human ingenuity & craft. Also reveals, for the first time, a lure & a fly so deadly that they have been banned by the U.S. government for 80 years. Color drawings.Schneider, Dickson is the author of 'Amazing Lures and Flies Rare and Forgotten Masterpieces of Fishing' with ISBN 9780788192746 and ISBN 0788192744.