A DREAM OF JEWELLED FISHES: RELECTIONS ON ANGLING. By John Aston.

2007 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Ppx,196. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations, dust-wrapper linocut by Robert Gillmor. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"This is a book that brings to life over forty years of angling". Very readable too, and a book with a great deal to say which many will find interesting and others controversial. Yorkshire beck trout, loch-fishing in the far north of Scotland, and Fenland specimen hunting. Trout, salmon, pike, carp and others". John Aston is a gifted angler and writer and A Dream Of Jewelled Fishes is a special book. Superbly written, some of the descriptions and deft turns of phrase leap off the pages like the fish of our dreams". Chris Yates". [John] uses words as a painter uses a pallet or a pianist a keyboard". (Wild Trout Trust Magazine). Chapters include:- No guru, no method, no teacher; Orienteering; Celtic fringes; Snatching defeat; A dilettante salmon fisher writes; Esox and I; The fish-shaped fish; A confession of carp; The fisher at the gates of dawn; Reading, writing and other stuff; Counter strategy; Flying lessons; River trance; Beyong the looking glass; North; The other place; Assynt; Finessing the pool; The shadowed light; Back from the basement; Exchanging the ifs.