DIE FORELLE UND DIE FLIEGE: DER KLASSIKER. By John Goddard and Brian Clarke. 25th Anniversary Edition.

(1980) 2007 25th anniversary edition of the first Swiss edition. 4to (214 x 275mm). Pp192. Colour and b/w photographs, line illustrations. Laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

This is 25th anniversary edition of the first Swiss edition, published in German, of THE TROUT AND THE FLY: A NEW APPROACH, translated and adapted by Professor Dr. Hermann Aldinger. One of the most important modern books on flyfishing. Pioneering stuff on rise-forms, presentation, and on the way natural and artificial flies appear to the trout. Chapters include: Einfuehrung, die einhundertste Forelle; Prolog, die Forelle und die Fliege. Teil I - beobachten, Angler und Forelle. Teil II - Sehen - Forelle und Angler. Die Farbfotos - in der Forellenwelt. Teil III - Anbieten, Angler gegen Forelle. Teil IV - Nachahmen, Angler, forelle und Fliege. Postskriptum, der bartlose Haken. A good read in accessible German.