FISHING LIMESTONE STREAMS: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO FISHING THESE UNIQUE WATERS. By Charles Meck.

2005 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 235mm). Ppxxii,202. B/w photographs, maps, bibliography. Cream paper-covered boards with green spine, spine titled in gilt.

The author "who has spent forty years studying and fishing limestone [rivers], explains the nature of these waters, how they differ from freestone streams and why they are such an important part of the environment and the fishing experience... In a highly detailed stream by stream breakdown, Meck guides you to fifty top waters and instructs you how to catch the ever-smart trout there." Detailed accounts of the geology and entomology of many streams in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia with a guide to each, and chapters on geology, trout food in limestone streams, tactics for limestone streams, fly-tying and patterns for limestone hatches and something on the direction the preservation of these waters is taking for the future. Includes a number of useful hatch charts.