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FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1921 
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right. Now what could cause such an 
accident? Had the little fellow struck 
some object with sufficient force to do 
it, or was it a throughtless cruelty of 
some careless angler? The fish showed 
no hook marks. 
— J. M. Heyde, M.D., Ohio. 
THE IDYL OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO 
I T is not every day in the week that a 
book on angling by Dr. George 
Parker Holden appears. His first 
effort in this direction, viz., “Stream- 
craft,” has already reached its second 
printing with the third, revised edition 
in course of preparation. The subject 
of the present controversy has added 
another book, “The Idyl of the Split- 
Bamboo,” (Stewart & Kidd Co., Cin- 
cinnati, 1920) to that select list of 
worth-while books on angling. The 
Bibliotheca Piscatoria, with its supple- 
ments, lists over four thousand fishing 
books; but the student of angling lit- 
erature, quite early in his studies, dis- , 
covers that there has been a great deal 
of repetition, if not downright piracy, j 
in this branch of book making. 
Dr. Holden’s latest work, however, is 
original and not, like so many other 
angling books, made up of extracts j 
from others. In the first chapter he 
mentions numerous celebrities who 
have been keen, fishermen; amongst 
them there is a reference to the lately 
departed Canon Greenwell. Mr. John 
James Hardy relates an amusing anec- 
dote about him., It seems that Mr. 
Hardy and his brother got onto a train 
after having been on a fishing trip; 
they had their rods and tackle with 
them, which naturally proclaimed what 
their business wd!s; and, as is only to 
be expected, Mr. Hardy became engaged 
with the stranger on that subject of 
never ending interest — fishing. 
During the course of their conversa- 
tion the subject of flies came up, and 
the stranger asked Mr. Hardy: “Now 
if you were obliged to fish with only one 
trout fly all the season, which one would 
you select?” After some consideration 
Mr. Hardy replied: “Greenwell’s 
Glory,” whereupon the stranger began 
to laugh. Mr. Hardy was at a loss to 
see where the joke was, but finally the 
stranger disclosed his identity. 
The Canon’s dressing for his fly can 
be found on page 231 of E. M. Tod’s 
“Wet-fly Fishing”; it is as follows: 
Wings, from the quill feather of a 
blackbird, tied in a bunch and split; a 
soft “cock-y-bondhu” hackle; and the 
body is made of yellow tying silk waxed 
with cobblers’ wax, which gives it a 
greenish-yellow look. Finally it is 
ribbed over with very fine gold twine. 
Then Dr. Holden gives us a brief 
history of the split-bamboo rod, and 
takes us through every stage in the 
building up of a rod, from the selection 
of the raw cane until it is finished and 
ready for use. 
The explanations and the accom- 
panying illustrations, many from the 
author’s sketches, fere so clear and con- 
cise that there is no reason why a no- 
vice should not be able to make his own 
rods after a careful perusal of the de- 
tailed instructions. 
In Writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
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