HOW TO FISH THE LOWER THAMES. By Frank Murgett. With drawings by Fred Taylor.

1960 1st edition. Small 8vo (115 x 184mm). Pp103. Frontispiece map, b/w illustrations by Fred Taylor. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Published as part of Putnam's "Fisherman's Choice" series. Maggot-farmer Frank Murgett was an influencial angler for half a century". Murgett is a London Roach Pole expert-one of the few anglers able to wield one effectively today. He is a contributor to most of the angling journals and an angler of wide experience. He is engaged on a book about the Thames and has also written the script of a fishing film. He is the proprietor of the London Bait Co". (John Norman - Coarse Fishing With The Experts, 1957).