Some Great Reads Out There in Public Domain Fly Fi
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In my relentless editing on fly fishing related articles on Wikipedia and for some other writings, I have been reading a lot of older fly fishing works. Fortunately, books published before 1923 in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain are out of copyright and considered in the Public Domain. That doesn’t automatically make them available to you unless someone takes the time to scan them and post to an Internet archive site.
Fortunately both Google and Microsoft have on-going projects to bring old books in the Public Domain to everyone’s fingertips. A great many classic and not so classic fly fishing titles have made it into PDF format. These can be downloaded and stored locally on your PC. I now have over 25 great old fly fishing titles on my PC that I can research anytime.
To find titles in the Public Domain:
1) Go to Google Books http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search and do an advanced search with any of the following terms: fishing, fly fishing, fly tying, or artificial flies or an authors last name. Also select a date of 1923 or less for the publication date to limit non-public domain titles from showing up.
2) If you want to search the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php do the same thing except search for Texts instead of All media types.
Just as an example, here’s a link to Frederick Halford’s Floating Flies and How to Dress Them (1886). http://www.archive.org/details/floatingflieshow00halfrich
There are a lot of old, but interesting and instructive reads out there in the public domain.
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