SPOONS, SPINNERS AND PLUGS: HOW TO MAKE THEM. By L. Vernon Bates. Series editor Kenneth Mansfield.

.# 1960 1st edition. Small format (95 x 166mm). Pp94. B/w illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in dark blue. Price 3s 0d net.

.# Another title in the excellent and highly collectable 'How To Catch Them' series. Chapters include: Spoons - metals, tools, manufacture, hooks, bar spoons, colour; Devon minnows - cane devons, vanes, wooden devons, metal devons, plastic devons, the future; Sundry spinning lures - quill minnows, wagtails, propellor-type lures; Dead-bait spinning tackles - minnow mounts, spinning vanes, body spears, attaching the vanes, prawn and shrimp tackles, methods of mounting; Plug baits - vanes, attaching the hooks, painting; Anti-kink devices.