Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and downfall from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species. Sweeping in its scope, Trout Fishing in the Catskills tells a thorough tale of the often tumultuous history of fishing in the Catskills. With a scope of over a century, Van Put tells of the Catskill’s frontier fishing beginnings and tracks the rise, fall, and eventual revival of the fisheries.

Throughout, this is a history of people and methods as well as rivers, including painters of the Hudson River School, with profiles of Theodore Gordon, Art Flick, Harry and Elsie Darbee, Sparse Grey Hackle, and more. No serious trout fisherman, in any part of the country, will want to miss this pioneering portrait of a seminal region in American angling history.

Hardcover: 438 pages

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

ISBN: 1602390495

Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.6" x 11"

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