THE SCIENCE OF SPINNING FOR SALMON, SEA TROUT, BROWN TROUT AND GRAYLING. By Alexander Wanless.

1930 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 192mm). Pp168 + 8pp ads. B/w photographs and line illustrations. Green cloth, dark green ruled border and titles to upper board and spine.

"In view of the increasing popularity of the practice of spinning for salmon, trout and grayling, an exhaustive and authoritative work on this subject will prove a valuable addition to angling literature. Mr. Alexander Wanless, in The Science of Spinning for Salmon and Trout, has dealt very fully with this branch of the angler's art, and his book should prove a standard work on Spinning - thereis at present no volume of the kind in existence. The book includes a great deal of entirely new material (and Mr. Wanless has not wasted time and space on the elementary points which every angler knows), but at the same time nothing has been mentioned which has not been definitely tested by practical experience". Chapters include:- The science of spinning; Equipment; Baits - natural and artificial; Casting; Spinning - heavy outfit; Spinning - the "Fairy" rod; Little things that matter; Tackle-making; On catching baits; Sea trout; Spinning for river trout; Lochs and reservoirs: grayling - pike; Heterodox". A refreshing book, stimulating and convincing... It deserves very high praise, and we hope it will be studied". (The Field)". A very practical book". (The Scotsman).