author
Harfield H. Edmonds
1882–1956
Best known for the classic angling book Brook and River Trouting, this Bradford-born writer helped preserve North Country fly-fishing knowledge with the eye of both a practical fisherman and a careful observer of nature.
1 Audiobook
Brook and river trouting : A manual of modern north country methods, with coloured illustrations of flies and fly-dressing materials
by Harfield H. Edmonds, Norman N. Lee
About the author
Harfield H. Edmonds was an English angling writer born in Manningham, Bradford, in December 1882. A later account of his life says he was brought up by his grandparents and educated at Salt’s Grammar School in Shipley, where he became friends with his future collaborator Norman N. Lee.
He is chiefly remembered for Brook and River Trouting, the influential guide he wrote with Lee and published in Bradford in 1916. The book is still noted for its detailed treatment of North Country trout flies and fly-dressing materials, and it remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Beyond writing, Edmonds was described as a keen entomologist and an experienced fly-tier who compared natural insects with the feathers he used. The same source says that by the early 1920s he was governing director of Thomas Edmonds and Sons (Textiles) Ltd., served on local councils and fishery bodies, and was vice president of the Salmon and Trout Association in 1952–53. He died in 1956.