Frederic M. Halford
(1844-1914)
British fisherman
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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".
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13 April 1844 Birmingham, England
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5 March 1914 (aged 69) P&O liner Morea at sea on the River Thames
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