THE ART OF SALMON FISHING. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE SPORT, TACKLE, TECHNIQUE AND LOCALITY. By Jock Scott.

1933 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Pp227. B/w photographs, illustrations. Tan cloth with title and vignette printed in dark brown and blue/black on spine and upper board, uniform with other volumes of the Sports And Pastimes Library.

"Jock Scott" was the pen-name of D.G. Ferris Rudd. A book for novices, promoting Wood's new method of greased line fishing, and describing the revolutionary changes in flyfishing for salmon, particularly the use of lighter, shorter rods, and sleeker, smaller flies: "...size and method of presentation are the vital factors". Covers the natural history of the salmon, tackle and casting, salmon rivers, Spring, Summer and Autumn fishing, prawning and spinning, harling and loch fishing.