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Carrie Gertrude Stevens(1882–1970) Carrie Gertrude Stevens revolutionized the world of fly tying at the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Stevens was born Carrie Gertrude Wills in Vienna, Maine, and she stayed in Maine her entire life, never traveling beyond its borders. Stevens moved to Mexico (Maine) and met and married her […]

Cornelia Thurza Crosby (1854-1946)   During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, one of New England’s most celebrated names in fly fishing was Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby. Crosby was born in Phillips, Maine, a small town just south of the Rangeley Lakes region. Her father died when she was very young, and she was raised by her

If you want to study fly fishing history, study the hook! The earliest hooks were discovered in Okinawa, and made from snail shells. Wikipedia says they are anywhere from 22.360 to 22,770 years old. Man has been looking to the ocean for food for quite some time! Inshore, it probably didn’t take long to figure