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Apr 13, 1844 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom Died on 05 Mar 1914 (aged 69)
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About Frederic M. Halford
- Frederic Michael Halford (13 April 1844 – 5 March 1914), pseudonym Detached Badger, was a wealthy and influential British angler and fly fishing author.
- Halford is most noted for his development and promotion of the dry fly technique on English chalk streams.
- He is generally accepted as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing".
- John Waller Hills, A History of Fly Fishing for Trout (1921) called Halford "The Historian of the Dry Fly".In Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly Fishing (1999), Paul Schullery describes Halford: ...highly formalized code of how a dry fly should be fished, a code further developed and popularized later in the nineteenth century by one of fly-fishing's most eminent authors, Frederic Halford, whose first book, Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, was published in 1886 and took the upper-crust world of British fly-fishing by storm.
