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An anthology of brilliantly written articles on fishing the dry fly from the world's masters of the sport of fly fishing. You've met them before, in the dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles they have written, but here is some of the best work from the world's most renowned dry-fly experts, assembled in one classic volume.With articles ranging from instruction in reading the water to tying better dry flies, and beautifully illustrated with photographs and Dave Whitlock's incomparable drawings, THE MASTERS ON THE DRY FLY will be a welcome addition to any angler's library.Good clean condition. Softcover wrinkled.

Academic Press Inc; 1st edition (July 1982) 887 pages

Good condition in wraps. USGPO 1947 Illustrated b&w photographs. 76pp

The aim of this book is to introduce a new method of garden mapping for novice and experienced gardeners and also gardeners who lack a confident knowledge of plants. This book will show you where to grow plants as opposed to the actual cultivation of plants. Nesbitt's graphics give the layman an immediate idea of shapes, sizes and relationships between the plants, which are listed in alphabetical order by their correct botanical names. On the plans, they are often identified by their more familiar common names. The book consists mainly of a 'dictionary' of symbols for use in garden mapping, and this list of graphics will cover all the most popular and commonly bought plants in Britain. Readers can copy freehand, trace or photocopy these graphics which will be kept deliberately simple so that the user who is not confident or good at drawing will be able to use the system.

With 90 one- to four-page long essays ranging from "Gonzo Fishing" to "When You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Take Him Fishing," Quinnett (Pavlov's Trout and Darwin's Bass) clearly views angling as a necessary adjunct to life. Fishing is a chancy endeavor, otherwise, he notes, "[t]hey'd call it catching." Quinnett, a psychologist specializing in suicide, sees the pursuit of trout et al. as a metaphor for the good and interesting life. It leads to clockless dreamlands away from the chaos of everyday work. And, by his calculations, it makes great economic sense, with a decent rod and reel costing only .043 pennies a day?for a person who lives 28,000 days. "If you can't see the logic of this," he writes, "you are obviously not a fisherman." A fisherman himself for half a century, Quinnett recalls the public civility and private anguish of old-timers when newcomers catch a giant bass with nothing but beginner's luck; and discusses the bad or funny things that must happen to fishermen because "[a] fishing… Read More