LEAVES FROM AN ANGLER'S NOTEBOOK. By T.S. Gray "Silver Devon." With an introduction by R.L. Marston Editor of the "Fishing Gazette."

1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. "...whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments.