TROUT FISHING IN RIVERS: THE FLY AND ITS PRESENTATION. By Malcolm Greenhalgh.

1987 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp183. Colour plates of flies, colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"This book ...brings together the dry fly and nymph methods of the chalk stream with wet fly techniques which have stood the test of time on the northern and western rivers." Chapters include: Tackle for river trout; River invertebrates; Trout flies, essential and useful; Styles of fly fishing; Early spring, March and April; Late spring, May to mid-June; The dogdays of summer, mid-June to mid-August; Season's end, late August and September; Hard days and difficult lies; The future.