HOW TO CATCH TIDDLERS. By Ian Russell. Illustrated by David Parkins and students of Blackpool and Fylde College of Further and Higher Education.

1986 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp143. B/w illustrations, brief bibliography. Laminated boards.

Catching tiddlers - freshwater and salt. Rockpooling and pond-dipping for all the usual suspects, fish, shellfish and other invertebrates, mostly with handnets but a little rod and line (well, stick and line) angling for minnows, sticklebacks and suchlike. Written for the young angler. Chapters include:- Catching tiddlers; The body of a tiddler; The handnet; Portable, transpicuous, icthyological observatories; Sticklebacks; Minnows; Young coarse fish; Young trout and salmon; Loach, bullheads, eels and elvers; Amphibians and their tadpoles; Freshwater invertebrates; Sandy seashores; Rockpool fish; Seawater invertebrates; The window-sill zoo; The aquarium.