FLY LEAVES AND WATERSIDE SKETCHES. By Gordon Mackie.

1998 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 238mm). Pp238. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations by Jane Vaughan-Wilson. Red end-papers, green cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

Angling essays by Gordon Mackie. "This extensive collection of writings from Gordon Mackie leads us into a world of fly-fishing adventure, mystery and debate. ...laced with humour, pithy comments and delightfully surreal happenings. Even the fisherman's family may find it an absorbing read, tracing as it does some of the motives and circuitous thought processes that lie behind this strangely gripping obsession." Trout and grayling fishing in Shropshire, Devon, and the chalk-streams of Southern England, with a small dose of New Zealand trouting. Something here for every trout fisherman. The majority of the material has been published previously in various British angling magazines and journals including several articles written under his pseudonym, Geoffrey Oaklands. The foreword is by Bernard Venables.