Background
Brian Clarke was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1938 and educated at Street Mary's Grammar School, Darlington.
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Brilliant insights into how trout act and why, with color photos, color illustrations, diagrams, and charts.
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The Trout and the Fly has been acknowledged as one of the most important books on fly fishing to appear in this century. It takes further than any book before it our understanding of the world of the trout and the way that the angler, his fly, his tackle and his behavior appear to the fish under water. The book is the result of years of work by two of Britain's most respected and widely-read angling writers, supported by help from university scientists in several fields. The pictures contained in it have been selected from thousands of the authors' own photographs taken from above and below the surface. The test has been informed by high-speed film viewed frame by frame to reveal the detail of events that happen too quickly for the human eye to register. Within this remarkable book are clear understandings for both the river and stillwater angler of: the way a trout sees (and the implications for the flyfisher of its excellent color vision); the way natural and artificial flies appear to the trout (one result of which is a series of fly patterns designed to mimic the way natural flies look from below the surface); the way that lines and leaders of different colors look from underwater - and the implications for tackle choice; the clues which fish give to their feeding behavior and how the angler can interpret them. All this information, and much more, is available in this attractive volume, which includes a new introduction and a postscript added a year after first publication, reporting observations not available in the original text. (81/2 X 103/4, 196 pages, color photos, b&w photos, diagrams)
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Brian Clarke was born in Darlington, County Durham in 1938 and educated at Street Mary's Grammar School, Darlington.
He is credited with two of the 20th century’s seminal works on fly-fishing (The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout, 1975 and, jointly with John Goddard, The Trout and the Fly, 1980). He was Angling Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1975-1996 and has been Angling Correspondent of The Times since 1991. His early career in journalism included five years with The Guardian in London (1962-1967).
A brief period as a management consultant followed before he spent 17 years with International Business Machines Corporation in a range of managerial and senior professional roles.
His lifelong interest in angling began with sticklebacks and minnows on the River Skerne as a child, then moved on to coarse fishing on the Tees and Swale. He took up fly-fishing in the mid-1960s and was completely self-taught.
His first book, The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout, was based on an examination of the nymphs he found in autopsies of trout, on detailed study of living specimens of the same nymphs that he stocked in an aquarium and on an analysis of trout rise-forms. The imitative approach the book advocated - small nymphs fished in a naturalistic way on long leaders - had a transforming influence on lake fishing for trout at a time when most lake fly-fishing was done with large lures and traditional Scottish and Irish lake patterns.
The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout was serialised by The Sunday Times and was described by Fly Fishing and Fly Tying magazine as “the most important book on the subject that has ever been written”.
Richard Walker, writing in Trout Fisherman magazine in 1980, described The Trout and the Fly as “likely to prove the most import contribution to the literature of trout fishing, this century”. The book recorded the experiments Clarke and John Goddard conducted on the way reflection and refraction influenced the world as the trout sees it and involved much underwater photography. Although each is widely read in his own right, the names of Clarke and Goddard will always be linked through the book and through The Educated Trout (1980), a 50-minute film in the British Broadcasting Corporation Television series The World About Us that documented their researches.
Clarke was the first President of The Wild Trout Trust (2003-2008).
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He was elected an Honorary Life Member of The Flyfishers’ Club in 2005.