IN SEARCH OF TROUT.

1973 1st edition. Pp223. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations, photograph end-papers. Cloth-backed boards.

Comment and analysis on North American flyfishing by a noted fisherman and journalist. Much of the material in the book appeared originally in True's Fishing Yearbook, True, Field and Stream, and Outdoor Life Magazine. Chapters include; Part One - Problems of the East; the first step - learn a local stream with bait; how to beat trout that spurn dry flies; Western flies for early Eastern trout; old friends and the joys of the worm; Part Two - Problems of the West; strangest trout lake in the West; the method that revolutionized fly casting; a lake that looks dead easy; a British Columbia speciality - hurry a fly downstream; cutthroats at 11,000'; frantic search for 'The Fly of the River'; roadside lake of lion-hearted rainbows.