LAKE, LOCH and RESERVOIR TROUT FISHING. By Malcolm Greenhalgh.

1987 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp224. B/w photographs, b/w line illustrations by Phill Williams, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

The author's "thoughtful approach to stillwater trout angling has led him to enormous success... As a ...research ecologist he combines expertise with angling experience" in addressing the following questions: "How abundant are the trout? What size are they? Where are they in the lake? On what are they feeding and how deep? Which artificial fly should be used and how can it best be presented to the trout?. ...Pertinent comment backed with telling anecdote" for any loch, lake and reservoir enthusiast fishing the waters of Britain and Ireland. Chapters include: Introduction; Lakes, lochs and reservoirs; The fish; Stillwater flies: attractors and deceivers; Presenting the fly to the fish; Tackle for stillwater fly fishing; Fly fishing from the bank; Fly fishing from boats; Fly fishing through the season; Spinning for lake trout; Bait fishing for lake trout; Trout for the table. Several good appendices on a wide variety of fly patterns.