Rivers of a Lost Coast

North Coast Legends

Harry Hornbrook

According to lifelong Eel River angler, Stephen Rosenberg, and fly fishing historian, Professor Jack W. Berryman, Harry Hornbrook was King of the Eel. Hornbrook was a remarkably classy angler adored by his friends and angling competitors. A phenomenal caster with remarkable ‘fishing sense’, in early years, Hornbrook was a sponge, soaking up the knowledge of Eel River greats Jim Pray, Lloyd Silvius, Art Dedini and Ben Anderson. During the 1940s and 50s, the Hornbrook name was a regular on the annual Field and Stream Big Fish contest.

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