THE FISHING WATERS OF SCOTLAND. By Moray McLaren and William B. Currie.

THE FISHING WATERS OF SCOTLAND. By Moray McLaren and William B. Currie.

SPLITTING CANE: CONVERSATIONS WITH BAMBOO RODMAKERS. By Ed Engle. Foreword  by John Gierach.

SPLITTING CANE: CONVERSATIONS WITH BAMBOO RODMAKERS. By Ed Engle. Foreword by John Gierach.

THE TROUT AND THE FLY: A NEW APPROACH. By John Goddard and Brian Clarke.

1980 1st edition. 4to (211 x 276mm). Pp192. Colour and b/w photographs, line illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

One of the most important modern books on flyfishing. Pioneering stuff on rise-forms, presentation, and on the way natural and artificial flies appear to the trout. Chapters include: The trout and the fly; The approach; How to see trout; Where trout lie; The light patch; Clues to feeding behaviour; How the trout sees; What the trout sees of the fly; What the trout sees of the angler; Fishing the nymph; Reading the take to the nymph; Fishing the dry fly; The search for truth; What we set out to achieve - and why; How to tie the new patterns; Postscript - the barbless hook.
£36.00
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Book Code
14079
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Author Goddard (John) and Clarke (Brian).
Book Code 14079
ISBN 0510225349 / 0510225349.
Book Description Slight browning. Good-plus in spine-faded dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1980
Publisher Ernest Benn.
Place London and Tonbridge.