DICK WALKER'S TROUT FISHING: ON RIVERS AND STILLWATERS. By Richard Walker.

1997 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 225mm). Ppviii,151. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

A good collection of articles on trout fishing by one of the greatest anglers of the 20th century. Chapters include: Catching your trout; Advice for beginners; Casting and accuracy; Fly lines; tackle improvements; Hooks and holding power; leaders; End of the Mayfly; Fishing coloured water; Selective breeding; Artificially bred trout; Hen fish and cock fish; Pre-season preparation; Cooking your trout; The evening rise; Coming short. Fly tying; Fluorescent materials and fly-tying; Different ways of tying dry flies; Mayflies; Mayfly nymphs; Chalk-stream patterns; Flies for the Test; Different types of fly; Buzzers; Tying your own flies; Land insects; Damsel Fly - dry; Leaded nymphs; Dry flies; tandem lures; Points of difference; Sedges; floating flies. How to cast; Detecting takes; Big reservoirs; Nymph fishing on running waters; Feeling for the fish; Caenis-hatch tactics; Wading; Tactics for high noon; How to dap; Static sunk flies; Loch-style fishing; fishing a flat calm; Dry fly and drag; Moving that fly; Fishing across the wind; Constant-speed retrieve; Early-season fishing; Hook-hold failures.