...Sara wrote the first published American papers of any consequence on the subject of aquatic insects from an angler's perspective...The fly-fishing fraternity, as a whole, didn't have a clue about insect life and most fly patterns were what we now call "attractors." Sara"s flies which won her a bronze medal at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, were imitations of naturals. She also observed the importance of water temperature and the effects that even a degree or two of change could have on pupae and larvae inte h bed of Spring Creek. She was way ahead of her time. -Joan Wulff¹

In 1876, she published a newspaper article entitled, "Beside a Singing Stream: A Story of the Insect Fauna of Caledonia Creek." That same year she published a three part series in Forest & Stream called "The Metaphysics of Fly Fishing," and a year later, she published an article on "Entomology for Fly Fishers," in Rod & Gun. The articles appeared in Forest and Stream in 1876 and Rod and Gun in 1877.