ATLANTIC SALMON FLIES AND FISHING. By Joseph D. Bates, Jr.

1970 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 222mm). Ppxx,362. Colour plates, b/w photographs and illustrations. Black wading angler motif to blue cloth.

"For North America and all around the Atlantic, how experts select and use flies and tackle - with many new methods for locating salmon and making them strike ...plus detailed dressings for 200 best fly patterns, over 100 in full, accurate colour." Dust-wrapper bill matter. Chapters include: Prefatory essay, Old Time Salmon Fishing, by John C. Cosseboom; The lure of the rivers; The lore of the salmon; The new look in salmon tackle; From the old to the new in salmon flies; Wet-fly fishing methods; Dry flies and low-water tricks; Atlantic salmon fishing in North America; Salmon fishing around the Atlantic; Notes on dressings and patterns; North American feather-wing patterns; North American hair-wing patterns; Dry-fly nymph patterns; British feather-wing patterns; British hair-wing patterns; Salmon flies of other countries; Epilogue, the present and future of Atlantic salmon fishing.