BIG FISH AND BLUE WATER: GAMEFISHING IN THE PACIFIC. By Peter Goadby.

1970 1st edition. 4to (190 x 250mm). Ppxvi,334. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Blue boards, spine titled in blue, vignette on upper board.

"The author is a well-known Australian and international angler and record holder who has competed regularly and successfully in international tournaments at Hawaii, Tahiti and in New zealand as well as in Australia. There is a foreword by Charles Cooke III of Maui, Hawaii". This is a very detailed account of deep-water angling in the Pacific, by a man of enormous experience. The numerous chapters are grouped into five sections: The Pacific - Australia, new Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, The Cook Islands, The Marshalls and Marianas, Papua and New Guinea; Fishing methods - eleven chapters; Tackle - ten chapters; Gamefish of the Pacific - quick guide to Pacific gamefish, forty-one sections each on a different species, eight sections on different species of bait and bait-fish; The travelling fisherman - clothing, seasickness, drinks, food, superstitions, fishing gear, photographic gear, seabirds the fisherman's eyes in the sky.