FISHING FANTASY: A SALMON FISHERMAN'S NOTE-BOOK. By J. Hughes-Parry.

1949 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 222mm). Ppx,206. B/w photographs. Blue cloth, spine titled in dark blue.

Memories of salmon fishing on the Welsh Dee over fifty years ago. Fly, minnow, worm, spoon and plug fishing. Includes accounts of trouting, eel fishing, and fishing from a coracle. Chapters include: The salmon fisherman; High and low water; Fishing from a coracle; Fishing for eels; Trout fishing; The lesser gods of fishing; The salmon's changing tastes; Fly or bait?; Temperature and size of lure; Fly; Minnow and sprat; Prawn and shrimp; worm; Spoon and plug; Grasshopper; Uncommon lures, and a lure for wartime salmon; Getting ready for spring; Poachers and poaching; Some reminiscences; A record of Llangollen-Fechan fishing water; Twelve milestones - a fisherman looks back. * This copy is inscribed, "Tight lines, Jack Hughes-Parry. To John Gordon. Hoping the rest of his days will be as happy as the last few ones, which his presence and that of his wife have made for my wife and self. 22.7.51."