Trout Fishing From All Angles
The Lonsdale Library, Volume II, Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, London, 1957. Chipping of dustwrapper at spine extremities, mended with brown paper from interior and covered with plastic to protect. Foxing at page edges and on endpapers.
With a chapter on Trout Scales by G. Herbert Nall, M.A., F.R.M.S., and one on The Legal Aspect of Fishing by Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law. The best all-round book on brown trout fishing that has appeared in this generation. (Times Literary Supplement). Chapters include: Milestones in angling literature (2 chapters); Life history of the trout (2 chapters); Tackle (2 chapters); Casting a fly; Entomology (2 chapters); Trout flies; Trout flies, the Ephemeridae; Trout flies, the Sedge Flies, etc. ; Anglers' knots and splices; Wax, gut, hooks; Practice (4 chapters); Rise-forms; Fly dressing materials; some ways to dress flies; Fishing in lochs and lakes (2 chapters); Dapping, dibbing, shade-fishing or bushing; Spinning for trout; Worm and creeper fishing; Brown trout scales; The grayling; The legal aspect of fishing; Trout streams and fishery management.