FISHING FACTS AND FANCIES. By H.G. Michelmore.

1946 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 219mm). Pp86. B/w photographs. Blue titles to blue cloth-backed, paper-covered boards.

The Preface, by Tom Eastham, K.C., is dated May 1946, but the British Library gives the date of publication as 1947. Reminiscences and advice on salmon fishing on West Country rivers; Dart, Taw and Teign. The author, a Newton Abbot solicitor, gives much sage advice, particularly on fishing the prawn and the shrimp. Chapters include: Preliminaries; Pixies; Farunculosis; Rainfall; Novice's luck; Trout fishing; Law; A day after salmon in south Devon; Knots; To catch a salmon; Habits of salmon; Scilicet; Devonshire reminiscences; A Devonshire lane.