THE TRUTH ABOUT TROUT FISHING. By Arnold B. Scott.

1951 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Ppxii,204. B/w photographs, illustrations by John Mackay. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 12s. 6d.

W.H. Lawrie uses the pen-name, Arnold B. Scott, to get to the bottom of fly-dressing, all methods of trout fishing, even angling bibliomania! Chapters include:- The truth about fishing tackle; Casting instructions - some home-truths; The truth about trout flies; Half-truths about presentation; The printable truth about fly-dressing etc; The untangled truths about fly-dressing materials; Angler's poultry - fowl truths; The unchanging truth about fishing weather; The truth about dry-fly fishing; The truth about wet-fly fishing; The brutal truth about worm fishing; Some unwarped truths about spinning; Shadows of truth about night fishing; Painful truths about loch fishing; The plain truth about burn fishing; Trout streams - unadulterated truths; Bibliomania piscatoria - the sad truth; The dreadful truth about angling authorship; The recordable truth about angling diaries; The one book of truth for trout fishers; The true likeness of the complete angler; The candid confessions of an expert angler; The foul truth about the purist; The dismal truth about duffers; Luxurious lies - exempli gratia.