FLY-FISHING FOR IRISH TROUT. By Niall Fallon.

1983 1st edition. Small 8vo (152 x 215mm). Ppx,146. B/w photographs, map, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is Niall Fallon's "up to date and comprehensive work on fly-fishing in the rivers and lakes of Ireland for brown trout, white trout and rainbow trout. A valuable and detailed guide book on where, when and how to fish, it is also a thoughtful distillation of over three decades of trout angling". . . Chapters include: The changing scene; Brown trout in lakes; Lake angling tactics - daytime; Evening lake angling; The river trout; The river season; Daytime angling tactics; Evening tactics; Rainbow trout; The white trout; Behaviour and flies [for white trout]; White trout tactics. Appendices include, principal trout lakes and rivers, white trout fisheries, laws, licences and tackle shops, seasons for brown and white trout, other Irish trout, as well as a three-page bibliography. A useful and increasingly scarce book, especially the hardcover first edition.