Preston Jennings
(1893-1962)

Left, a sample of the 350 undiscovered 
steelhead and salmon flies, created and 
tied by Preston Jennings, featured
in FORGOTTEN FLIES, with their
instructions. 


Preston Jennings is best remembered for 
A Book of Trout Flies (1935), the first 
American book to present angling entomology 
from a lucid, academic viewpoint: identifying
 stream insects by their scientific nomenclature
 and presenting corresponding dressings for 
artificials. Yet most readers never got to see the 
 actual flies Jennings tied for the stream because
 his book was composed of illustrations. 
Unfortunately, he passed away before he could 
publish his second book, The Fish and the Fly, 
in which he planned to include a substantial 
number of Atlantic salmon and steelhead patterns. 
The manuscript and his dressings lay virtually 
unknown for the past forty years. 
FORGOTTEN FLIES presents these 
undiscovered flies.

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