CHALK STREAM SALMON AND TROUT FISHING. By Charles Bingham.

1993 1st edition. 4to (196 x 250mm). Pp176. Colour photographs, maps, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

The nearest thing you can get to interviewing a river: Charles Bingham visits dozens of beats on Hampshire rivers, fishing each with a well-informed local angler. Part 1 gives an overview of trout and salmon fishing on chalk streams. Part 2, "The Rivers and the Angling Experts" takes us to many beats on the Rivers Test, Itchen, Meon, Hampshire Avon, Wylye, Nadder, Kennet, Lambourne, Allen, Frome, Cerne, and the Piddle. Includes a chapter on the Grayling society by Dr. Ronald Broughton, chairman of the Society and useful lists of where to stay, who to go to for instruction, and tackle suppliers.