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"A selection of the best trout insects
for the month of April. Painted from life
by the author."
-American Trout Stream Insects by Louis
Rhead.
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An artist by profession. Louis Rhead authored "American
Trout Stream Insects". It was one of the first
attempts on American angling entomology. Rhead spent
the better part of 3 years collecting insect specimens
from the Beaver Kill in New York's Catskill Mountains
Though flawed in his attempt, because Rhead chose to
give the local insects names he invented such as: Needle
- Tail, Brown Buzz, and Little Mauve, it was none the
less a breakthrough in American fly fishing entomology
and literature. Mr. Rhead was also the creator of the
"Nature Fly".
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