Tap’s Tips

Horace Gardner “Tap” Tapply was the distilled quintessence of Yankee outdoorsman, a flyfisherman and grouse hunter to the bone, but “Tap’s Tips” had universal appeal. Over the course of 35 years, from 1950 to 1985, he probably wrote 2,500 of them, each a perfect creation of 40 to 50 words.

Wreathed in pipe smoke, throwing