THE MASTERS ON THE DRY FLY. Edited by J. Michael Migel. Illustrated by Dave Whitlock.

1977 1st edition. 4to (184 x 259mm). Pp246. B/w photographs, illustrations by Dave Whitlock. Yellow boards, with brown cloth spine titled in gilt.

A good tying section by Poul Jorgensen. Chapters on technique by America's best angling writers. Chapters include: The charm of the dry fly by Roderick Haig-Brown; The beginnings by A.I. "Pal" Alexander; Some fish and some fishermen by Ed Zern; The dry fly by Poul Jorgensen; Tackle for fishing the dry fly by Charles F. Waterman; Casting a dry fly by Bernard "Lefty" Kreh; The water and the fish by Leonard M. Wright Jr; Hatches and imitations by Carl E. Richards; Upstream, the classic presentation by Charles K. Fox; How to fish pocket water by Art Flick; Special presentations by Ernest Schwiebert; Big water by Michael Fong; Still water - ponds and lakes by Steve Raymond; Bass and panfish take a dry by Dave Whitlock; The dry fly for Atlantic salmon by Lee Wulff; Peripatetic anglers by Robert Warner; The future of the dry fly by J. Michael Migel. The foreword is by Nick Lyons.