Based in the Emerald City (Seattle, WA), serving the Pacific Northwest and points beyond.

Who invented fly fishing?

The Macedonians.  They were first noted in about 200 AD by the Greek, AElian, in his Nature of Animals.  “They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Their rod is six feet long, and their line is the same length. Then they throw their snare, and the fish, attracted and maddened by the colour, comes straight at it, thinking from the pretty sight to gain a dainty mouthful; when, however, it opens its jaws, it is caught by the hook, and enjoys a bitter repast, a captive.”