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.