ART OF ANGLING JOURNAL. Volume 1, issue 4. By Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils.

2002. Volume 1. Issue 4. Large perfect-bound magazine format paperback (230 x 300mm). Pp216. Highest quality colour photographs throughout, advertisements.

A handsome and wonderfully illustrated journal. Articles on fly-tying and materials, fishing tackle collecting, angling art and literature. Brilliant photography and a superb production of the highest quality. This series was printed using a five-colour printing process, one of the five being real, metallic, gold. The obvious expense of this could have contributed to the early demise of the series, but has left us with wonderful, lustrous photographs. ISSN: 1536-9636. Articles include: Alfred Ronalds - Australia's first fly tier, by Mick Hall; At the Sign of the Golden Witch, by Michael Simon; The elusive Spey Fly, by Topher Browne; A stranger in Paradise, by D.J. Marchant; June on the Upper End, by Adriano Manocchia; Flies and fishing on Iceland's West Ranga, by Skuli Kristinsson; An angler's day - thoughts on a way of life - the duds we wear, by Gordon Wickstrom. Fly Tying Ornithology Part IV: Carolina Wood Duck; Mandarin Wood Duck; Common Guinea Fowl; Crested Guinea Fowl; Vulturine Guinea Fowl. North Umpqua fall, by Mike Baughman; Collector's Edge II - there are no friends at auctions, by Jerry Girard; James Acord - pushing the leather envelope, by Ingrid V. Sils; Winter ghosts of lower B.C., by Paul Miller; Paul Beaudreau - reflections on creative fly tying, by Ingrid V. Sils; Hail Hibernia, Part I, by Jack Fallon; Rock Wilson - an artist in feathers, by Ingrid J. Sils; The Ultimate Smelt, by Michael Martinek Jr; In quiet places.