THE PURSUIT OF STILLWATER TROUT. By Brian Clarke. De luxe leather-bound edition.

(1975) 2001 new edition. De luxe issue. 8vo (165 x 240mm). Pp192. Colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon, raised bands. Quarter-bound in dark blue leather over light blue cloth. Edition limited to 60 copies.

"A milestone in angling literature". Tom Ivens' "Stillwater fly-fishing" and Clarke's "The pursuit of stillwater trout" marked the transition of stillwater trout fishing in Britain from traditional loch-style to modern imitative methods. This was really the first book to set out in a logical way the thought processes which led the author to be able to choose one fly in preference to another, knowing that he had made a reasoned and sensible choice. The novice, faced with a huge expanse of water, and without the experience of previous successes, lacks the confidence that a trout would want to eat his patently artificial lure. This book provides the reasoning for him to decide on fly pattern and method. New edition August 2001, with a new preface, "Twenty-five years on". * This is the de luxe quarter leather-bound edition limited to only sixty signed and numbered copies. Printed inside the book is the ISBN of the standard Robert Hale edition, 0709068905. This is incorrect, we believe the correct ISBN for this de luxe issue is 0709075774.