Frederic M. Halford Writer

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".In Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly Fishing (1999), Paul Schullery describes Halford: ...highly formalized code of how a dry fly should be fished, a code further developed and popularized later in the nineteenth century by one of fly-fishing's most eminent authors, Frederic Halford, whose first book, Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, was published in 1886 and took the upper-crust world of British fly-fishing by storm. — Paul Schullery, Royal Coachman, 1999

Personal facts

Pseudonym	Detached Badger
Birth date	April 13, 1844
Birth name	Frederic Michael Hyam
Birth place	Birmingham
Nationality	United Kingdom
Ethnicity	Jews
Date of death	March 05, 1914
Place of death	Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Education	University College School