Me too!

Ray, there’s a preview on the website. On FB I believe he gives more of the history behind the book. The prices direct from author are £15 softcover, £25 hardback, £9 postage for either. The book is based on The Teesdale Angler” by R.Lakeland. That book can downloaded for free. http://www.gutenberg....

There’s a guy on FB taking orders for his book on Teesdale flies. It’s available from the publisher but direct orders to him are quite a bit cheaper. I ordered a copy but I have no other interest.

https://www.blurb.com/b/10114994-fishin ... ale-angler

That's really a nice fly, Ron!

The Spider Booklet in the reference section has the Black Magic fly pattern.


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Here's some history about cotton lisle.

https://www.artimondo.co.uk/magazine/cotton-lisle/

Polly Rosborough may have copied the design.

https://www.vintageflytackle.com/produc ... nd-catalog

Leisenring's "Stone" shows an up eye hook.

The advantage of Blacker is he that gives dye recipes some of which I've reproduced. His dye recipes can be pretty sloppy but fortunately he gives his source for dye information. The source is much more precise.

I didn’t know of a reference to the flies of Aldam so Ronalds was the best I could do. The problem I have is figuring out the colors.