<p>Well, I had seen a brilliant performance and I thought I had understood.  Clearly, Monsieur X was a Hercules, a magician, to catch a trout with a fly!  That is Charles Ritz recalling his reaction, as a boy, to seeing a trout landed on fly fishing tackle for the first time.  The year was 1912.  Now in his sprightly eighties, Charles Ritz himself a Hercules in the angling world.  Mr. Ritz has fished the finest rivers in Europe and North America, learning and teaching everything there is to know about fly-fishing, becoming a magician himself.  In sixty years of almost single-hearted devotion to this sport (Mr. Ritz also directs the famous Ritz Hotel in Paris) he has developed unique casting and tackle innovations.  A FLy Fisher's Life is a kind of modern Complete Angler, undergoing revision and expansion until now it is one of the classics of our time.</p>

A Fly Fisher's Life

Ritz, Charles C

Crown, Publishers

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A Fly Fisher's Life