Tracing the history of fly-fishing, from the "plumes" of the Ancient Greeks to the carbon rods and ever more sophisticated tackle and flies of the present, this book follows the path of an extraordinary sporting evolution. The author picks out significant personalities and describes the issues and controversies of each era, and the technical breakthroughs. Conrad Voss Bark, once a television newsreader and parliamentary correspondent, has written many novels and fishing books, and is a former angling correspondent of "The Times".
