TROUT PROBLEMS. By H.D. Turing.

1948 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 233mm). Ppviii,190. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 other half-tone plates from photographs by Dr. E.A. Barton. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

An attempt to "...straighten out the muddle of suppositions, theories and discoveries which had been produced by anglers and scientists in the matter of a trout's apparently inconsistent habits and behaviour". The idea of this book was originally that of H.T. Sheringham who, unfortunately, passed away before he could put pen to paper. Chapters include: What is a trout stream; The problem of the spawning bed; The problem of trout growth; The problem of the size limit; The problem of the rise; The problem of the olive; The problem of improving fly hatches; Summer-fly problems; The problem of the dry fly; Casting problems; Nymph problems in theory; Nymph problems in practice; The angler and the underwater nymph; Rainbow trout: the problem of their introduction; Rainbow trout: the problem of their acclimatization; Is it possible to make a trout stream?