FLYFISHING THE WELSH BORDERLANDS: A REVIEW OF FLYFISHING AND FLIES FOR WILD TROUT AND GRAYLING... By Roger Smith.

2011 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 241mm). Pp342 + 1p ad. Colour plates of flies, photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Printed in black and red. Gilt angler to green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Everything you could wish to know about the rivers of the Welsh Borderlands - Dee, Severn, Wye and Usk - and their many delightful brooks and streams: The ecology of the rivers; their history and the books that have been written about them; famous anglers of the Borderlands; their fly patterns and techniques. Walter Gallichan, the Reverend Powell, Canon Eagles; all tell their stories, as do some of the most successful of today's Borderlands anglers. Includes over 230 local trout and grayling fly patterns specially tied and photographed for this book, together with selected excerpts from the best writings about the area, an extensive bibliography, and an up to date comprehensive catalogue of where to fish today, together with contact names, telephone numbers and websites. Roger Smith has done a great servicefor all the many anglers who know and love the region, and especially for those who have yet to discover its secrets. "It is a masterpiece - informative, intriguing and entertaining - and I loved it." (Sandy Leventon, Trout and Salmon Magazine). The Collector's Edition consists of only 250 cloth-bound copies, each of which has a bookplate signed and numbered by the author.