TIGHT LINES: ANGLING SKETCHES. By R.C. Bridgett.

1926 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp320. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine and upper board printed and ruled in black.

"The following chapters, some of them descriptions of days on various lochs and rivers of Scotland, the remainder devoted to discussions of a theoretic nature, have been selected from a series of articles which I have, during the past year or two, contributed to the Glasgow Herald. The verses included with them, which are, it is superfluous to say, only an angler's verses, originally appeared in the Fishing Gazette. ...Here and there, throughout the book, I venture to give some hints on methods and tactics, to indicate some localities where fishing may be obtained, and to state as fairly as I can the quality of sport that may be expected in each place. However, my chief aim has not been to give information, but rather to revive the angler's memories of great days he has had, and to occupy his attention when he is denied the pleasures of participation in his beloved sport." Chapters include: The pleasures of fishing; The trout of spring; An April day; Two days on Loch Lintrathen; The merry month; A good day; Weather and sport; Carsebreck; A day on the loch; A good basket; The trout of summer; On Loch Doon; The dry fly in June; Among Ayrshire hills; In Galloway; An evening on Loch Leven; A July day in Ayrshire; A black water; In Sutherland; A pool in the wood; An evening on the moor; Fishermen and flies; On Loch Torridon; Hooked and lost; Spinning for salmon; The first of the season; On the tenth; A Tay salmon; Salmon flies; In Inverpolly Forest; A Loch Lomond day; On the Border Esk; On the South Esk; On the Deveron; A September day; An October day; An autumn memory.