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  • Cornelia Fly Rod Crosby, The First Maine Guide
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    Cornelia Thurza Crosby, or "Fly Rod", as she was popularly known, was born in Phillips, Maine, on November 10, 1854. She died one day after her 92nd birthday on November 11, 1946.[1] She was the first Registered Maine Guide.

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    On March 19, 1897, the Maine legislature passed a bill requiring hunting guides to register with the state. Maine registered 1316 guides in that first year.

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    In addition to being its first licensed guide, Crosby promoted Maine's outdoor sports at shows in metropolitan areas, and wrote a popular column that appeared in many newspapers around the country, but was nationally published in the magazine "Fly Rod's Notebook"[3] Her efforts helped to attract thousands of would-be outdoorsmen—and women—to the woods and streams of Maine.

    Crosby attracted generations of tourists and wilderness-visitors through her popular newspaper columns of her fishing and hunting tales in Rangleley Lake, Maine.

    Crosby once stated