A New School

    Licensed by age and experience, I have prospected the trout fishing of these Colorado Rocky Mountains and have discovered lodes of high grade angling along the Front Range of Colorado. I feel confident in the claim that the Front Range-- with those who have advanced its angling literature, practice, and gear-- constitutes  an integral and distinguished sphere of angling of national import.   

     Let this claim be known
as
 The Front Range School of American Fly Fishing

Masters in the School

The Living:

Joe Argello

John Barr

A.K.Best

anonymous

Mike Clark

Ed Engle

John Gierach

Daniel Galhardo

Anders Halverson

Todd Hosman

Ken Iwamasa

Kathy Shulkin-Jensen

                    

    The  Dead:

Arthur Carhart

L.B. France

Goodwin Granger

Jim Haywood

Peter “Baker” Johnson

Charlie Meyers
  Richard O’Conner

Bill Phillipson

Hank Roberts

Not included are commercial fly tiers and guides identified with fly shops.

A region must support a published literature to qualify as a school.

Other national schools:

As I have named them

The School of the Catskills

The Upper Dam of Maine School

The School of  Pennsylvania Lime-Stones

The School of the Upper Mid-West

The School of the Montana Sky

The School of the Pacific Rim

I propose a symposium of anglers at which each of the schools

 would be featured and defined.

ERIN BLOCK in the chair

© Gordon Wickstrom