FLY-FISHING PICTORIAL. By David Scholes as told to Tony Ritchie.

1990 1st edition. Oblong 4to (270 x 228mm). Pp128. B/w photographs by David Scholes, photograph end-papers. Brown boards, spine titled in white.

A collection of David Scholes' black and white photographs of angling for trout all over Australia covering fifty years of his fly fishing life. The accompanying text, as told by David Scholes to Tony Ritchie, gives some history and background to the waters, the fish, the flies and the friends who have accompanied him over the years. Chapters include: Early days; Flood fishing; Wet fly - broken streams; Dry fly - broken streams; Wet fly - flat streams; Dry fly - flat streams; Wet fly - stillwaters; Dry fly - stillwaters; The gem of gems.