30 SALMON POOLS: ON THE DEE, DEVERON, SPEY AND FINDHORN. By Iain C. Ogden.

2021 1st edition. Landscape 4to (303 x 217mm). Ppx,291,xix. Colour and b/w photographs throughout. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper. Edition limited to 500 copies, each signed and numbered by the author.

"After over forth years of regularly casting a lline over the length and breadth of rivers in the North East of Scotland and beyond the author has befriended countless fishers, ghillies, factors, and lairds. Collectively they have been privy to a wealth of salmon angling knowledge and insight which led to the publication of two books" in 2015 and 2017. "Here in his third book the author focusses on the very pools where salmon are caught, it features 30 of the most notable salmon pools on four of the most notable salmon pools on four of the msot famous salmon rivers in Scotland. The choice is based on fame, favouritism, photogenic appeal and whether the facts, figures and stories translate to entertaining narrative. Hours were spent in factors' officess, castle libraries and ghillie's huts investigating fishing records and historic pictures on each prospective pool. Aerial and bankside photographs along with artists' paintings fully illustrate every chapter." Chapters include: River Dee: Peter's Pot; Lawson Pool; Boat Pool; Dorris Stream; Upper Kirks; Hotel Pool; Grey Mare; Logie; Bumbee; Fir Park. River Deveron: Lower Shaw; Greenbank; Banff Rock; Turning Wheels; Jenkins. River Spey: Horne's; Dipple; Cairnty; Hollenbush; Jock's Tail; Back of the Bog; Boat Pool; Long Pool; Junction; Wood Pool; Polchraine. River Findhorne: Sluie; Poacher's Pot; Verastie; Bridge Pool.