Museum Pieces: Edward Ringwood Hewitt, Fly-Fishing Renaissance Man

Written by: Peter Nardini, American Museum of Fly Fishing

Hewitt was an inventor, author, scientist, and angler, and he changed the way we think about the sport.
All photos courtesy AMFF

Geoffrey Hellman of The New Yorker once described Edward Ringwood Hewitt (1866-1957) as “America’s outstanding example of the inability of man, however much inclined, to turn himself. . .

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