Atlantic Salmon Fly Art

Atlantic Salmon Fly Artisan Specializing in Handcrafted Exotic Atlantic Salmon Fly Art Work

Atlantic Salmon Fly Artisan

“A Feather and hook brought together

Creating beautiful, individually unique

Atlantic salmon Flies “

It has been well said that salmon fishing is the sport for Kings. Fox hunting is a noble pastime, and the first burst from the covert side full of joyous excitement. Drawing on the wild red deer after hours of careful stalking is no doubt an anxious and exciting second, but the bold rise and first wild rush of a twenty pound salmon thrill through the frame as nothing else in the nature of sport does. I have never known a man who has in him the true essence of a sportsman, and who has for the first time felt and seen the play of a fresh run salmon in his native river, who has not been a salmon fisher for life. I have known and heard of scores of instances where other sports have been given up for salmon fishing, but never heard I of one where salmon fishing was given up for any other; and many a skeptic has been convinced of the truth of all this by having eighteen feet of greenheart and a hundred yards of line put into his hands, with a freshly hooked salmon at one end of the line

by C.H. Palmer 1928.

The Atlantic salmon Fly Artisan is a comprehensive look into the history, location, technique, facts and tips, and art of the sport of Atlantic salmon fishing. Use this site as a resource for the information and enhancement of your knowledge of Atlantic salmon flies and fishing. The artisan has followed a dream and passion of the sport of fly fishing and would like to share this passion with others who have the same interest by sharing the art of the Atlantic salmon Fly.

Atlantic salmon fishing and the use of flies to take these fish has been around many years. The sport has been labeled as a sport of kings, and the lore and knowledge has been passed down through the years from England to North America. The use of exotic feathers of bright color has always made Atlantic salmon flies an eye catching form of art. Thank you for visiting the Atlantic salmon Fly Artisan.

To the
RIGHT HONORABLE
EDVVARD Lord Montague,
Generall of the Navy, and one of
The Lords Commissioners
of the Treasury.NOBLE LORD,

Do present this my book as I have named it Barker's delight, to your Honour. I pray God send you safe home to your good Lady and sweet Babes. Amen, Amen. If you shall find any thing delightfull in the reading of it, I shall heartily rejoyce, for I know you are one who takes delight in that pleasure, and have good judgement and experience, as many noble persons & Gentlem. of true piety & honour do & have. The favour that I have found from you, and a great many more that did and do love that pleasure, shall never be bury'd in oblivion by me. I am now grown old, and am willing to enlarge my little book. I have written no more but my own experience and practise, and have set forth the true ground of Angling, which I have been gathering these threescore yeares, having spent many pounds in the gaining of it, as is well known in the place where I was born and educated, which is Bracemeale in the Liberty of Salop, being a Freeman and Burgesse of the same City. If any noble or gentle Angler, of what degree soever he be, have a mind to discourse of any of these wayes & experiments, I live in Henry the 7^th's Gifts, the next doore to the Gatehouse in Westm. my name is Barker, where I shall be ready, as long as please God, to satisfie them, and maintain my art, during life, which is not like to be long; that the younger fry may have my experiments at a smaller charge than I had them, for, it would be too heavy for every one that loveth that exercise to be at that charge as I was at first in my youth, the losse of my time, with great expenses. Therefore I took it in consideration, and thought fit to let it be understood, & to take pains to set forth the true grounds and wayes that I have found by experience both for fitting of the rods and tackles both for ground-baits and flyes, with directions for the making thereof, with observations for times and seasons, for the ground-baits and flyes, both for day and night, with the dressing, wherein I take as much delight as in the the taking of them, and to shew how I can perform it, to furnish any Lords table, onely with trouts, as it is furnished with flesh, for 16 or 20 dishes. And I have a desire to preserve their health (with help of God) to go dry in their boots and shooes in angling, for age taketh the pleasure from me. My Lord, I am
Your Honours most humble
Servant,

Thomas Barker.

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A world traveler, the wild Atlantic salmon is an anadromous fish - one that spawns in fresh water but spends much of its life at sea. According to the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Atlantic salmon is in danger of extinction.

The historic range of the Atlantic salmon included the North Atlantic with freshwater tributaries from Ungava Bay to Lake Ontario and southward to Connecticut in North America, and from Russia's White Sea to Portugal on the European coast.

While many of these salmon runs are now reduced or extinct, Atlantic salmon can still be found in the rivers of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, France, Spain, Canada and the United States.

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Atlantic salmon * Atlantic salmon Fly Art * Atlantic Salmon Fishing * Atlantic salmon Flies * Art of Atlantic Salmon Flies *Atlantic Salmon Fishing in Michigan

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