FLYFISHER'S CHRONICLE: IN SEARCH OF TROUT AND OTHER FISHES AND THE FLIES THAT CATCH THEM. Written and illustrated by Neil Patterson.

2015 1st edition. 8vo (185 x 252mm). Ppx,374. B/w illustrations by the author, illustrated end-papers. Dark green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"Introducing over seventy new and proven fly patterns, Flyfisher's Chronicle takes us to where the last of the world's wild fish hide away. To lonely beaches in Mexico after bonefish; snake-infested waters in Argentina in the search for the golden el dorado; grayling in Alaskan glacier streams only accessible by float-plane; rainbow trout in South Africa amongst savage baboons; brook trout in Patagonia where locals carry handguns; tarpon off the Cuban mainland and salmon in Iceland and Scotland - and midnight snook fishing in a fashionable Floridian shopping centre. Flyfisher's Chronicle tells of an angling idyll, of great fish caught and lost, of the flies that fooled them and of the trials and tribulations of flyfishing places that exist only in the wildest imaginations of the most adventurous flyfisher." Chapters include: Chile - Hotchpotch; Russia - Banana fly; South Africa - John Lennon; Montana - Shuck sedge; Mexico: Yucatan - Burrowing crab; England - The white sock; Norway - Czar fly; Cuba: Las Islas De Los Jardines De La Reina - Wishbone worm; France - The mole fly; South Uist - Ian's bumble; Cuba: Cayo Largo - The hamster; West Florida - The gurgler; Wales - Jambo; Wales - Blockhead spinner; Argentina: Corrientes - Neil's eel; Argentina: Patagonia - Rolling Ricky; Highlands and Islands - The daddy-long-legs; Outer Hebrides: Harris - The goat's toe; Iceland - Billy dog; Christmas Island - Sea shrimp; Alaska - Ted's improved nothing; Islamorada - Rabbit's hat.