PIKE: IN PURSUIT OF ESOX LUCIUS. By Martyn Page and Vic Bellars.

PIKE: IN PURSUIT OF ESOX LUCIUS. By Martyn Page and Vic Bellars.

THE FOX COMPLETE GUIDE TO CARP FISHING. By Colin Davidson and others. Limited hardback edition.

THE FOX COMPLETE GUIDE TO CARP FISHING. By Colin Davidson and others. Limited hardback edition.

THE ANGLER AND THE LOOP-ROD. By David Webster.

1885 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 196mm). Ppxiv,340 + 2 + 24pp ads. Frontispiece portrait, 3 colour plates of flies, plain plates, ills. Green pictorial cloth, gilt titled on spine, black image of the angler and his loop-rod on front cover. Brown end-papers.

Based on forty years' experience fishing for trout on the rivers Tweed and Clyde and their tributaries. David Webster fished "the loop rod", a 13 feet6 inches rod without a reel, but with a small loop at the end. To this was attached an 18-20 foot tapered horse-hair casting line and a 16-17 foot tapered "gut-line" or leader. He fished nine flies on a cast, on 2 inch detachable droppers; very sparse spider-patterns which he generally cast upstream. He also discusses other methods of fishing and includes chapters on grayling, pike and salmon. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 colour plates of salmon flies, 1 colour plate of trout flies, b/w plates of minnow-baits, diagrams of "angles at which to cast", and a b/w map.
£90.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
23425
More Information
Author Webster (David).
Book Code 23425
ISBN B00681GG4Y.
Book Description Slightly stained and bumped, inner hinge slightly tender, edges browned, name to end-paper. Still a very good copy.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1885
Publisher William Blackwood and Sons.
Place Edinburgh.