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

1970 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 222mm). Ppxx,362. Colour plates, b/w photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth, black wading angler motif to upper board, spine titled in black on brown panel.

"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.