ROUGH RIVER AND SMALL STREAM FISHING. By David Carl Forbes.

1977 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 203mm). Ppx,150. B/w photographs, illustrations by the author. Green boards, spine titled in silver gilt.

"In 1966 [the author's] book Small Stream fishing was published. [Its] informal style and depth of knowledge ...ensured its immediate popularity. Since that time, however, angling in small waters has changed to such an extent that the author realised that a completely new book was necessary. Streams are not as pure as they once were and their number has been lessened by the encroachments of property speculators, but it is still possible, with the know-how, to make a superb fishery from a struggling, neglected stream." Chapters include: First, find your fishing; Finding the fish; A summary of species; The choice of tackle; Bream; Chub; Dace; Perch; Roach; Trout; Fishing with the fly [for coarse species as well as trout].