List of pseudonyms of angling authors
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Since the 18th century, hundreds of angling authors have adopted pseudonyms for their books, for their contributions to journals and the popular press.[1] Pen names for angling authors were most common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a list of pseudonyms used by notable Angling authors. Entries are listed by pen name, real name, and works.
- The Amateur Angler, Edward Marston[2]
- The American Angler, John J. Brown[2] Brown wrote the American Angler’s Guide (1845), the first book-length guide for angling published in the United States.
- Badger Hackle, Theodore Gordon, early American Catskill angler.[1]
- Barnwell (or Ira Zell), Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, author of Superior Fishing; or The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Bluefish of the Northern States (1865) and other titles.[1]
- Christopher North, John Wilson, a Scottish author associated with Blackwood's Magazine.[1]
- Clericus, William Cartwright[2]
- Clifford, Charles, William Henry Ireland, author of The angler: a didactic poem (1804) and noted forger of Shakespearean papers.[3]
- Cotswold Isys, Richard H. Glover[2]
- Detached Badger, Frederic M. Halford, noted British author of Floating Flies and How To Dress Them (1886) and others on Dry Fly Fishing.[4]
- Ephemera, Edward Fitzgibbon, British author of The Book of the Salmon (1850) and others.[5]
- Fisher, Paul, William Andrew Chatto, British author of The angler's souvenir (1835, 1845, 1847)[6]
- Frank Forester, F.F., of the Cedars, Henry William Herbert, British author of The Fish and Fishing of the United States (1850).[1]
- Geoffrey Mortimer, Walter M. Callichan[2]
- Ghanrhos, L.J. Graham-Clark, British fly tyer and contributor to The Field[7]
- Grapho, John Harrington Keene, American author of Fly Fishing and Fly Making for Trout (1887)[1]
- Greendrake, Gregory, J. Coad, British author of The angling excursions of Gregory Greendrake Esq. (1832)[8]
- Greydrake, Geoffery, Thomas Ettingsall, contributor to The angling excursions of Gregory Greendrake Esq. (1832)[8]
- Hampshire Fisherman, Richard Clark Sewell, British writer with contributions to The Field[9]
- Hi-Regan, John Joseph Dunn[2]
- I.D. Esquire, John Dennys(d.1609) The Fisherman's "Glorious John" (see Westwood, Thos. Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1861) Author of earliest English poetical treatise on fishing, The Secrets of Angling, first published in 1613.
- Jim-Jam, James C. Mottram, English author of Fly Fishing, Some New Arts and Mysteries (1915)[10]
- John Bickerdyke, C. H. Cook, a prolific 19th-century angling author on coarse and sea fishing[11]
- Jock Scott, Donald Rudd, author of Greased Line Fishing for Salmon[12]
- John Chalkhill, Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler (1653)[1]
- John Trotandot, George P. R. Pulman, British author of Vade mecum of fly-fishing for trout (1841) and others[13]
- J. R. Hartley, Michael Russell, an author who wrote two books about fly fishing-- Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days and J. R. Hartley Casts Again: More Memories of Angling Days
- Kego-E-Kay, Fred Mather, American author of Men I have Fished With (1897)[1]
- Klahowya, Orange Perry Barnes, author of Fly Fishing in Wonderland (1910)[1]
- Lariat or (Sam Slocum), Charles Hallock, founder and proprietor of Forest and Stream, 1873–80, now Field & Stream[1]
- Latouche, John, Oswald J. F. Crawford, British sporting writer, c. 1876[14]
- Martindale, Charles White[2]
- Oconomowoc, Dr. James A. Henshall, American angling author of Book of the Black Bass[1]
- Old Log, Colonel Tickell, a contributor to The Field c. 1876[15]
- Oliver, Stephen, William Andrew Chatto, British author of Scenes and recollections of fly-fishing, in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland (1834)[16]
- Otter, A. J. Alfred, London, published three angling books in multiple editions between 1859 and 1878.[17]
- Palmer Hackle, Robert Blakely, prolific British angling writer, 1846-1871[18]
- Pelagius, Rev. M. G. Watkins, a contributor to The Field c. 1892[19]
- Piscator, Edmund Goldsmid. Used in preface to 1885 ed. of John Dennys's The Secrets of Angling.
- Piscator, George Philip Rigney Pulman[2]
- Red Quill, James Englefield, a frequent contributor to The Field c. 1899[20]
- Red Spinner, William Senior, British author of Waterside sketches. A book for wanderers and anglers (1875) and others.[1]
- Robert Traver, John D. Voelker, author of Trout Madness (1960) and Trout Magic (1974)[21]
- Seaforth & Soforth, G.E.M. Skues, Skues was a British lawyer, author and fly fisherman most noted for the invention of modern-day nymph fishing and the controversy it caused with the Chalk stream dry fly doctrine developed by Frederic M. Halford.[2]
- Skene-Dhu, Cecil Lang[2]
- Sparse Grey Hackle, Alfred W. Miller, American author of Fishless Days, Angling Nights (1971) and prolific sporting columnist for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Sports Illustrated.[22]
- The American Editor, Reverend George Washington Bethune, published first American edition of Isaac Walton's The Compleat Angler (1847)[23]
- Theophilus South, Edward Chitty, British author of The Illustrated Fly Fishers Textbook (1845)[1]
- The Professor, John W. McDonald, author of Quill Gordon (1972)[1]
- The Wanderer, John Keast Lord[2]
- Ubique, Parker Gillmore[2]
- Val Conson, a legal abbreviation for Valuable Consideration was G.E.M. Skue's penname for his articles with The Fishing Gazette.
- Water Rail, Richard Walker, well known British angler and author
- Other pseudonyms used by Skues include: Seaforth and Soforth, E.O.E., A Limity Dincombe, S.A.S., Simplex Munidishes, Spent Naturalist, W.A.G., B. Hinde, Unspoiled Child, Captain Stoke, A Fluker, Integer Vitae, Caunter Fordham, A Butt, and Current Colonel.[24]
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