A FREE LANCE ANGLER IN IRELAND. By Laurie Gaffey.

ND (1930) 1st edition. Small 8vo (130mm x 187mm). Ppix,104 + ix ads. B/w photographs. Blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in black.

A combination of fact, anecdote and verse on salmon and trout fishing all over Ireland, but mainly in counties Wicklow and Meath. Includes one chapter on pike fishing in Kildare. Published by L. Keegan who had a well-known Dublin gun and fishing tackle shop. Chapters include:- Home again; My first salmon; A day with the trout on the King's river; The Upper Liffey from Kilbride to Kippure; An Easter tour; The River Nanny (Co. Meath); So near and yet so far; Salmon angling on the Liffey; Purist, how are you?; The top of the Boyne; Pike fishing at Straffan, County Kildare; Roving days; The rivers of Royal Meath; The rivers of Dublin and Kildare; Innishowen waters; The fisheries of County Wicklow; The charm of dapping; The Slaney in the Glen of Imaal, County Wicklow; The Barrow where it is narrow; The Fane in County Monaghan; Dry fly fishing for the novice; Irish angling associations.