FISHING SECRETS OF THE EXPERTS. Edited by Vlad Evanoff.

1962 1st edition. Large 8vo (158 x 239mm). Pp288. B/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations. Two-tone black and green cloth, contributors' names in gilt to green cloth, gilt titles to green cloth spine.

"Eighteen top specialists write about America's favorite game fish and their best, tested ways of catching, in fresh water and salt". "Every chapter in this book - each one jam-packed full of tips ... - is the distillation of an acknowledged expert's experience and knowledge about a specific type of fishing - every one of the authors is known to readers of outdoor magazines, sports pages, and sporting books, and each is writing about the subject for which he is best known. Not one sentence of (this book) has ever before appeared in print - this is brand-new material, completely up to date, written expressly for this book". Chapters include: Trout on a natural bait; Catching trout on flies; Spinning for big trout; Live bait for black bass; Black bass on artificial lures; Bugging for black bass; How to catch steelhead; Fishing for muskellunge; Atlantic salmon fishing; Catfishing know-how; How to catch carp; surf fishing tips; The art of bottom fishing; Boat fishing for striped bass; Channel bass fishing; How to catch weakfish and sea trout; Three ways to catch tarpon; Salt water fly fishing; California yellowtail and albacore fishing; Catching swordfish and giant tuna. Contributors include: Don Shiner, Ray Ovington, Joseph D. Bates, Jr., Homer Circle, Tom McNally, Don Harger, Bob Pinkowski, Lee Wulff, Emmett Gowen, Russell Tinsley, Frank Woolner, Claude Rogers, Henry Lyman, Charles F. Waterman, Joe Brooks, Claude M. Kreider, Captain Frank T. Moss, Vlad Evanoff.