Flyfishers' Club

The Flyfishers' Club
Founded	1884;140 years ago
Type	Gentlemen's club
Location	69Brook Street,London,England; (in space leased fromSavile Club);
Patron	King Charles III
Website	flyfishersclub.org.uk

TheFlyfishers' Clubis agentlemen's clubinLondon,England, which was founded in 1884 for enthusiasts offlyfishing.^[1]In 1894, the club had more than three hundred members, while in 1984, this number had risen to between eight and nine hundred members.^[2]^[3]

History[edit]

The club's library has been described as one of the finest of its kind inEurope;^[3]it has a collection of around three thousand works on the subject of fishing, including works such as the successfulFloating Flies and How to Dress ThemandDry Fly Fishing in Theory and Practiceby F.M. Halford, one of the club's co-founders.^[2]Many well-known writers on angling are members, and have contributed signed copies of their publications to the library.

According to Basil Field, the founding president, the original prospectus described the club's purposes as follows:

"To bring together gentlemen devoted to fly-fishing generally.

"To afford a ready means of communication between those interested in this delightful art.

"To provide in the reading-room, in addition to all the usual newspapers, periodicals, &c., catalogues, and books, foreign as well as English, having reference to fishing, particularly to fly-fishing so as to render the club a means of obtaining knowledge about new fishing places and vacancies for rods, and making it a general medium of information on all points relating to the art."^[4]

The club publishes a long-standing magazine, theFlyfishers' Journal;writers includedG. E. M. Skues,who has been described as "one of the greatesttroutfishermen that ever lived. "^[5]^[6]^[7]Skues dedicated his 1921 book,The Way of a Trout with the Flyto The Flyfishers' Club "in gratitude for many happy hours and some priceless friends".^[8]In 1938, a debate was held at the club on Skues's controversial theories about the use ofnymphsin fly-fishing, which led him to publishNymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout.^[6]

The club also has a museum of fishingmemorabiliawhich holds arodused byDavid Garrickand a case offliesreputed to have belonged toIzaak Walton.^[9]Other items include a rod box originally exhibited inThe Great ExhibitionatThe Crystal Palacein 1851 and apirn(used as an alternative to afishing reel) which belonged to the "Ettrick Sheppherd"James Hogg.^[10]^[11]

Premises[edit]

The Flyfishers’ has had a number of homes. It had no permanent home of its own for the first four years of its existence, but opened its first rooms of its own in the Arundel Hotel in 1888, then moved to No. 8 Haymarket in 1889 and remained there until 1907, when it moved toSwallow Street,Piccadilly. It stayed there until destroyed inThe Blitzin 1941. Since then it has leased premises in several other London clubs. Today, the Club leases rooms in theSavile Club,69 Brook Street in central London.

Notable members[edit]

Its current patron isKing Charles III.

Notes[edit]

^"Flyfishers' Club".The Times.3 March 1934. p. 9.
^^a ^b"Fishing Facts in England, expressed in club membership, library and reports"(PDF).The New York Times.22 July 1894.Retrieved13 November2009.
^^a ^bVoss Bark, Conrad(8 May 1984). "Sight too frightening for the eyes of a ghost".The Times.p. 24.
^"The Fly-fishers' Club".Fortnightly Review.30 May 2010.Retrieved30 May2010.
^The Media Business Group (24 May 1990). "Media Snap: Angling magazines hook more readers".PR Week.Haymarket Publishing Services Ltd.{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help)
^^a ^bRobson, Kenneth (2004). H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.).Skues, George Edward Mackenzie (1858–1949).Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.Retrieved17 November2009.
^Herd, Dr. Andrew N."G.E.M. Skues".Fly Fishing History.Retrieved17 November2009.
^Skues, G. E. M. (1921).The Way of the Trout with a Fly.A & C Black, London.
^"The Fly-fishers' Club".The Irish Times.23 May 1934.Retrieved13 November2009.
^A Correspondant (11 March 1916). "Salmon Fishing as it used to be".The Times.
^King, Robert (23 June 1999). "Gavin hooks angling contract".Aberdeen Press and Journal.
^"SINCLAIR, Charles James Francis".Who's Who 2017.Oxford University Press.Retrieved4 August2017.
^Mannion, Jenne (8 August 2003)."Hooked on the dream of country life".The Independent.Retrieved26 March2017.

References[edit]

Anonymous,The Book of the Flyfishers' Club, 1884-1934(Croydon: Croydon Advertiser Printing Works, 1934)
Jack Chance and Julian Paget (ed.),The Flyfishers’: An Anthology to mark the Centenary of The Flyfishers’ Club 1884–1984(1984)
Ken Robson (ed.),Flyfishers’ Progress

External links[edit]

Official website

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[times1-1] "Flyfishers' Club".The Times.3 March 1934. p. 9.

[nyt1-2] "Fishing Facts in England, expressed in club membership, library and reports"(PDF).The New York Times.22 July 1894.Retrieved13 November2009.

[bark1-3] Voss Bark, Conrad(8 May 1984). "Sight too frightening for the eyes of a ghost".The Times.p. 24.

[fortnightly1-4] "The Fly-fishers' Club".Fortnightly Review.30 May 2010.Retrieved30 May2010.

[mbg1-5] The Media Business Group (24 May 1990). "Media Snap: Angling magazines hook more readers".PR Week.Haymarket Publishing Services Ltd.{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help)

[robson1-6] Robson, Kenneth (2004). H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.).Skues, George Edward Mackenzie (1858–1949).Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.Retrieved17 November2009.

[herd1-7] Herd, Dr. Andrew N."G.E.M. Skues".Fly Fishing History.Retrieved17 November2009.

[skues1-8] Skues, G. E. M. (1921).The Way of the Trout with a Fly.A & C Black, London.

[itimes1-9] "The Fly-fishers' Club".The Irish Times.23 May 1934.Retrieved13 November2009.

[corr1-10] A Correspondant (11 March 1916). "Salmon Fishing as it used to be".The Times.

[king1-11] King, Robert (23 June 1999). "Gavin hooks angling contract".Aberdeen Press and Journal.

[12] "SINCLAIR, Charles James Francis".Who's Who 2017.Oxford University Press.Retrieved4 August2017.

[13] Mannion, Jenne (8 August 2003)."Hooked on the dream of country life".The Independent.Retrieved26 March2017.

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