Trout Flies of Stillwater. The Natural Fly, Its Matching Artificial and Fishing Technique

London England: Adam & Charles Black, 1977. Hardback. Trout Flies of Stillwater. Previous owners name to inside cover. Very slight browning to spine. Blue cloth with gilt letering. The author brings exceptional talen to this work. To begin with, he is both a skilled and experienced trout fisherman and one as well armed in the techniques of stillwater as in those used on a river. He also has the gifts of acute observation and great patience, and has used these to extend existing knowledge by practical study at the lakeside, by breeding many insects in his tanks at home and by long hours spent at the microscope. Above all he has been able to reinforce these studies by his skill in photography. The splendid colour plates are not only a valuable aid to identification: they reveal too the quite extraordinary beauty of some of these insects. This is essentially a practical book and the reader can wade in as deeply as his fancy decides. For the serious student of entomology there is much food for thought, much of it new. As a work of reference for the growing army of reservoir fishermen it is an invaluable aid to identification and to the selection of the right artifical. Not least important is the sound advice it contains on the strategy and tactics of stillwater trout fishing. Illustrated. 277 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.