Bücher von Edward R. Hewitt

Edward Hewitt was born in 1866 and spent his early years in New Jersey - mostly at the family summer home on the Ringwood River where he first learned to fly-fish. Before he was twenty years old he and his brother were operating a sizeable trout hatchery. After university and then marriage in 1892, he made numerous trips to Europe where he fished extensively in England and Scotland as well as France and Germany. This was at the critical time of the codifying of fly-fishing theory and practice by F.M. Halford et al. He took the knowledge back with him to the United States. In 1918 he bought 4-1/2 miles of the world-famous Neversink River Valley in New York State where he established a summer home and a trout hatchery. Edward R. Hewitt authored several angling titles but two stand out as enduring classics - Telling on the Trout (1926) which approached the subject of angling for trout from the trout's viewpoint and Secrets of the Salmon (1922) in which he shared with an astonished angling world his single-handed development of dry-fly fishing for salmon.