THE KENTISH ANGLER; OR, THE YOUNG FISHERMAN'S INSTRUCTOR: SHEWING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF FISH...

THE KENTISH ANGLER; OR, THE YOUNG FISHERMAN'S INSTRUCTOR: SHEWING THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF FISH...

A GUIDE TO AQUATIC TROUT FOOD. By Dave Whitlock.

A GUIDE TO AQUATIC TROUT FOOD. By Dave Whitlock.

FLY DRESSING AND SOME TACKLE-MAKING. Written and illustrated by W.E. (Bill) Davies.

1963 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 190mm). Pp128. B/w illustrations by the author. Red boards, spine titled in black.

"No matter how rapid the advance of technology during the next twenty-five years or so it is a fairly safe bet that the fabricating of flies for fishing will still be by hand." And so it has proved. Chapters include: General materials; Natural insects; Two useful knots and other items; Some fly-dressing terms; Parts of trout fly; Dressing Spider dry fly; A down-winged pattern; Dressing a winged dry fly; Creating a nymph; The Winged Mayfly; Trout-fly dressings; Lures, demons, terrors and streamers; Dressing salmon-flies; Dressing a Thunder and Lightning and a Durham Ranger; Famous salmon-flies and dressings; Salt-water flies; Fins, swivels and otters; Spoons, Devons, minnows and worm tackles; Salt-water artificials and odds and ends.
£10.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
60804
More Information
Author Davies (William Ernest). (1900-1982).
Book Code 60804
ISBN B001AVWZ4M.
Book Description Slight use to boards, browning to end-papers. Good-plus in frayed and clipped dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1963
Publisher Elliott's Right Way Books.
Place Kingswood, Surrey.