RIVER ANGLING FOR SALMON AND TROUT: WITH A MEMOIR, AND LIST OF THE TWEED SALMON CASTS. By John Younger. Flyfisher's Classic Library Edition.

(1840) 1995 new edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxvii,222. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Quarter-bound in dark red bonded leather over red cloth, gilt FFCL motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt, silk marker ribbon, marbled end-papers. Dark red cloth slipcase. Edition limited to 1000 copies.

Reprinted from the third edition of 1864, which includes a memoir of the author as well as a chapter on creeper fishing and several other notes by an anonymous editor. Younger was a shoe-maker from St Boswells on Tweed. His salmon patterns pre-date those of Scrope (1843), and represent the classic old Tweed flies. Includes as a preface Arthur Ransome's biographical note on Younger taken from "Mainly About Fishing." Chapters include: Eight-page essay by Arthur Ransome, The Shoemaker of St. Boswells; Sketch of the author's, by the Editor; Remarks preliminary; Salmon flies - unkown natural causes prevent salmon taking, nature not imitated in flies, flies reduced to six distinct kinds; Miscellaneous observations on salmon flies - to vary the three first flies, size of flies of more importance than colour; Trout flies, natural and artificial; Curious phenomena relative to the 'taking' of salmon and trout; Miscellaneous observations on trouting, trout flies, tackle and rods; On the dressing of flies - salmon flies and trout flies; Casting or wheel lines; Fishing rods; Salmon angling - throwing the line, striking, working the line, not to become flustered in a run; General observations on salmon angling; Trout angling; Angling with worm for salmon; Angling with worm for trout; Angling with minnow; Angling with par-tail; Angling with roe; Creeper fishing, by the Editor; Stone-fly fishing, by the Editor; Worms and worm angling, by the Editor; Scrap - notes on water insects, biographical etc., by the Editor; Descriptive list of salmon rod casts in the Tweed, including the names of proprietors; Descriptive list of the tributaries of the Tweed for trout anglers, by the Editor.