Frederic M. Halford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederic M. Halford

British fisherman

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1844

Place of Birth: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Mar-1914

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.