SALTWATER FLYFISHING: BRITAIN and NORTHERN EUROPE by Paul Morgan and friends. De luxe leather-bound edition.

1998 1st edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Pp263. Colour photographs, illustrations, extensive bibliography. Fully bound in maroon bonded leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt, colour plate tipped-on to upper board, marbled end-papers, silk marker ribbon. Edition limited to 60 copies.

Saltwater flyfishermen from all over northern Europe contribute information on methods, places and patterns for catching saltwater fish on the fly. Species covered include salmon, sea-trout, bass, pollack and coalfish, mullet, garfish, flatties and cod; and the area covered is from north Norway to southern Ireland. The contributors include Mike Ladle on bass and mullet, Stan Headley on Orkney sea-trout and many European experts from Norwegian cod to Baltic sea-trout. Included are extracts from the existing literature on saltwater flyfishing by John Bickerdyke, Fred Aflalo, Sidney Spencer, Stephen Johnson and others. Extensive bibliographies of sea-trout and of saltwater flyfishing are included. This is a copy of the limited de luxe issue of the first edition. This edition was limited to only 60 signed and numbered copies though a few additional contributor's copies were bound in blue leather and issued with a fly.