Sparse Grey Hackle (Alfred W. Miller) 1892-1983

Alfred W. Miller started his writing career in newspapers. He eventually became editor of the "Bulletin of the Angler's Club of New York". In the Thirties and Fourties, when Miller began writing irate articles to save his beloved Catskill streams, he took the "Nom De Plume" Sparse Grey Hackle; and soon the name was showing up in various sports writers columns. Sparse's "Fishless Days, Angling Nights" has long been considered one of the half dozen most beloved books on Fly Fishing. Sparse Grey Hackle died Armistice Day in 1983. (From the inside panel of "An Honest Angler, The Best of Sparse Grey Hackle", written by his daughter Patricia Miller-Sherwood. A book highly recommended by this site.)