THE GUILELESS TROUT. By H.B. McCaskie.

1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 190mm). Pp176. Not illustrated. Coarse-textured oatmeal cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

# "Dr. McCaskie writes of the dry fly from long experience, dating back to 1895 on the Tweed, when this method was almost unknown in the North... It is his considered opinion that the trout is a creature of very low intelligence, as indeed it must be biologically; when the angler credits it with the higher education, he is either blindly swallowing tradition or searching to excuse a defeat that is racially humiliating. In tilting at old idols Dr. McCaskie may shock some readers but should not offend them, for he has a light touch and shuns dogmatism". . . Much on dry fly fishing, chapters on loch fishing, on the Derbyshire Wye and on the Usk.