A GAME FISHER IN IRELAND. By Colin Laurie McKelvie.

1989 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,192. Frontispiece map, colour and b/w photographs, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Ireland has innumerable inland waters, ranging in size from the longest river and the biggest lake in the British Isles, to countless little streams and loughs. Most afford fine game fishing for wild brown trout, seatrout and salmon and some are world famous for the superb quality of the sport they have provided for successive generations. Here, on Europe's western fringes, are some of the finest wild game fisheries to be found anywhere. Most are quiet and underfished, havens for the salmon and seatrout enthusiast seeking good sport in the wildness of Ireland's western landscape, or the brown-trout angler fishing amid the lush green meadows of the Irish Midlands and the limestone streams of County Clare. A Game Fisher in Ireland is a blend of description, anecdote, memories and illustrations, giving the visiting game fisher a flavour of a wide selection of Irish fisheries and their distinctive characters." Chapters include: Fish of the far north-west; Northern Ireland; From Leitrim and Sligo westwards; West Sligo and Mayo; The Galway fishery; The wild fisheries of the west; 'Twixt Galway and Limerick; The Midland lakes; The great loughs.