{"id":4345,"date":"2021-02-21T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:49:41","slug":"the-fishing-gazette-major-trahernes-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2021\/02\/the-fishing-gazette-major-trahernes-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fishing Gazette &#8211; Major Traherne&#8217;s patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web-1536x901.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tippetiwitchet-web.jpg 1755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A while back I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time reading the original 1884 editions of &#8220;The fishing gazette&#8221;. In 1883\/84 George M. Kelson ran a series of text called &#8220;On the description of salmon flies, Major Traherne&#8217;s Patterns&#8221; where he presented (as far as I know) 18 patterns by Major Traherne, but also describes the steps involved in tying a salmon fly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These text have not been easily available, and when I had a chance to read the 1884 editions I got some pictures and have transcribed the text and added a new &#8220;book&#8221; to flypattern.org where I will publish the 12 chapters I have from this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have the first four, or the No.18 of these, then I&#8217;m interested to get in touch with you to see if I can get my hands on them! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is listed on flypattern.org under &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/george-m-kelson\/book\/the-fishing-gazette-on-the-description-of-salmon-flies-major-trahernes-patterns\">The fishing gazette: On the description of salmon flies<\/a>&#8221; and the first pattern published today is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/george-m-kelson\/book\/the-fishing-gazette-on-the-description-of-salmon-flies-major-trahernes-patterns\/pattern\/no-5-tippetiwitchet\">No. 5. Tippetiwitchet<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was lucky enough to be able to spend some time reading the original 1884 editions of &#8220;The fishing gazette&#8221;. In 1883\/84 George M. Kelson ran a series of text called &#8220;On the description of salmon flies,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[464,488],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flypattern-org","tag-kelson","tag-traherne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}