A HOLIDAY FISHERMAN. By Maurice Headlam, C.B., C.M.G.

(1934) 1949 new edition. 8vo (139 x 218mm). Ppxvi,237. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Reminiscences of flyfishing for trout and salmon in Hampshire chalkstreams, and in Ireland, with chapters on Scotland, Norway, Bohemia, Finland, as well as on pike and grayling fishing. Chapters include: Beginnings; Grayling, Easter holidays, the West Country, a Londoner's week-ends; Ireland, bog-streams and the dry-fly; Irish salmon and white trout; Tipperary, the Suir and the dry-fly, Suir salmon, Easter 1916; Hampshire; Scotland; Scotland again, loch trout and river trout; Norway; bohemia; Finland (i) 1905, (ii) 1932; Post-war salmon, Great Britain; Pike and others, the noble sport of eel-switching; The future of fishing.