DRY-FLY FISHING FOR TROUT AND GRAYLING. WITH SOME ADVICE TO A BEGINNER IN THE ART. By "Red Quill" (James Englefield).

(1908) 2008 print-on-demand edition. 8vo (164 x 241mm). Ppxx,211. Laminate boards.

Split into two parts - the first being practical advice on dry-fly fishing for the beginner, the second half consisting of reminiscences of dry-fly days, mostly on the chalkstreams, around the turn of the century. Contents include:- Part One - A dry-fly purist's advice to a beginner: A first day's sport; Concerning his outfit; How to carry a landing net; Trout lines and casts; On the losing of trout; The further losing of trout; A dry-fly outfit (continued); New form of keep net; Outfit (continued); A light dry-fly equipment; Trout flies; Grayling flies; In praise of solitude; A down-stream wind; The advice to a beginner, continued and ended. Part Two - Notes and sport of a dry-fly purist: A reminiscence of Derbyshire; A dry-fly tour in the north; Grayling sport on the Itchen; Last hours with the grayling; The trout season, 1905; The grayling season, 1905; An Itchen basket; The trout season, 1906; A september brace; A new grayling fishery; The grayling season, 1906; At the end of the old year; The opening day of the trout season, 1907; April, 1907, on the Itchen; Some aspects of trout fishing; A first visit to Ireland.