Earliest Records of Fly Fishing
| When |
Where |
References |
| 200's AD |
Macedonia |
De Natura Animallum by Aelian |
| 900's |
England |
Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Paintings |
| 1100's |
Germany |
Miscellaneous Writers |
| 1496 |
England |
Treatyse of Fysshyng Wyth an Angle by Dame Juliana Berners |
| 1539 |
Spain |
The Little Treatise on Fishing by Fernando Basurto |
| 1577 |
England |
The Arte of Angling by William Samuel |
| 1590 |
England |
Book of Fishing with Hooke and Line by Mascall |
| 1613 |
England |
Secrets of Angling by J. Dennys |
| 1614 |
England |
Second Book of the English Husbandman by Gervase Markham |
| 1653 |
England |
The Compleat Angler by Isaak Walton |
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Source: American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, VT
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