IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES: A REVIEW OF FLY-FISHING FOR TROUT AND GRAYLING ON THE RIVERS, BROOKS AND STREAMS OF THE WELSH BORDERLANDS. By Roger Smith.

2008 1st edition. A4 loose-leaf booklet in plastic sleeve (216 x 296mm). Pp45. Colour photographs, map. This printing limited to 100 numbered copies.

An amateur but very worthwhile production, cataloguing the rivers of the Welsh Borders and their tributary streams, a history and bibliography of angling in the region, and a great deal on local fly patterns and their origins. The title is taken from "Clear Waters" by A.G. Bradley- " I always think of the streams of the Welsh Borders... as in a class by themselves." This scarce limited edition was the manuscript that was to later become the basis of Flyfishing the Welsh Borderlands, published in 2011 by Coch-y-Bonddu Books, Machynlleth.