CASTING FOR GOLD. By John Bailey.

1991 1st edition. 4to (195 x 254mm). Pp141 + 2pp ads. Colour and b/w photographs. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Continues the quests of Bailey's previous book, "In wild waters." Ferox and char, Irish pike and trout, wild carp and mahseer. A companion to the Granada television programme of the same name. "Casting for Gold is the record of two years' fishing in wild, exotic places, for equally wild and often rare fish species. ...The book takes us on a great fishing expedition in passionate search of the quarry, starting in the west of Ireland and through the Scottish Highlands fishing for ferox, then, down through Europe and out in to the Balkans for encounters with wild carp and a great catfish. The finale is a hunt for the legendary mahseer of the Ganges." A good, well-written book of angling tales. The dust-wrapper illustration of a fighting mahseer is by Chris Turnbull.