Harfield H. Edmonds

Harfield H. Edmonds is known as the co-author, with Norman N. Lee, of Brook and River Trouting, first published in 1916 in Bradford, England. The book presents practical methods for fishing northern English rivers and includes detailed material on flies and fly-dressing, with the authors explaining in the preface that they wanted to give beginners clearer guidance than earlier angling books had provided.

Public records and library listings located here confirm Edmonds's authorship of that book, but little biographical detail about his wider life was consistently documented in the sources I found. A memorial listing indicates that he died in 1956, though I could not confirm a full birth date from stronger biographical sources.

That scarcity of personal detail makes the book itself the clearest introduction to Edmonds. It has stayed in circulation through library archives and Project Gutenberg, suggesting a lasting place in classic angling literature, especially for readers interested in traditional trout fishing and North Country fly patterns.