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FLYFISHING SKILL ON STILLWATERS. By Peter Mackenzie-Philps.

(1986) 1987 2nd edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp191. Colour plates of flies, b/w photographs, illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Flyfishing - Skill on Stillwaters by Peter Mackenzie-Philps is designed to help you become and remain a good, thinking angler, and your own natural luck can help afterwards! The thinking anglers uses his powers of observation and knowledge of trout and their food to guide him into the best methods for each site. He is always prepared to listen to advice but likes to test theories before adopting them as part of his fish armoury. And, averaging out fish per outing, he will always catch more trout that will the unthinking angler... Peter Mackenzie-Philps - who owns a stillwater - has written a much needed guide for the thinking angler, drawing on the immense amount of knowledge he has acquired, much of it in the form of casual fishing conversations at the water's edge". Chapters include: Clothing first; Bits and pieces; Rods; Reels and reel fittings; Lines; Leaders; Time spent in reconnaissance; On arrival; Casting; Dry fly fishing; Wet fly fishing from the bank; Nymph fishing; Lure fishing; Boat fishing; Fly patterns; In conclusion.
£7.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
48425
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Author Mackenzie-Philps (Peter).
Book Code 48425
ISBN 0713720042 / 0713720042.
Book Description Slight spotting to top edge else good-plus in slightly used and frayed dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1987
Publisher Blandford Press.
Place Poole, Dorset.