FLY FISHERMAN'S ODYSSEY. By Robert M. Mengel.

1993 1st edition. Small 4to (183 x 242mm). Pp.xvi,150. B/w vignette illustrations by the author. Green cloth backed cream boards, spine titled in yellow.

"Essays, explorations and line drawings by a distinguished ornithologist". Autobiographical essays, linked chronologically. Published posthumously with a foreword by the author's wife. Chapters include:- I finally catch a trout; Fishing with Warren; A size 14 gravel bar; Every cloud; The way North; Rig heavy; Pure copper; Tales of Gibraltar; On bears; My short, happy life as an Alaskan guide; First things first; 'I am the land that broods'; The Spring Creek mystique; The Firehole; The Railroad Ranch; The Livingston spring creeks; Hampshire; The Gulpers of Hebgen Lake; Townsend revisited; Cutthroats on the Yellowstone; Bass on the Oklawaha; Calling home; On cameras.