ADVANCED LAKE FLY FISHING: THE SKILLFUL TUBER. By Robert Alley.

1991 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 220mm). Pp120. Colour photographs, illustrations. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

"Fly fishers find big, flat water more difficult to fish than streams which have more obvious holding spots and food sources, Robert Alley has written Advanced Lake Fly Fishing: The Skillful Tuber to help fly fishers gain more confidence and thus hook more fish". Chapters include; the three main problems confronting float tubers; choose your trout lake wisely; in search of active-feeding trout; choosing a bass lake; float tube strategies; your watch is a fishing tool; two rods are better than one; the seasonable tuber; tubing big reservoirs deep water nymphing; two approaches to bucktail and streamer fishing; wet fly fishing for rising trout; the 'other' trout food; bass bugging; tubing in wet weather; the 'perfect' fly; the 'real' reason for float tubing; the flies for lake fishing.