MODERN TROUT FISHING. By W. Carter Platts.

(1938) 1942 reprint. 8vo (145 x 228mm). Ppx,242 + 2pp ads. B/w photographs. National Ecomomy binding in brown cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"This volume is the result of an honest effort to describe, with such impartiality as I am capable of, the many and various legal methods of catching trout with rod and line in common usage to-day in the British Isles." Carter Platts further states that he has avoided "hysterical partisanship" and "I crave forgiveness of the fly fisher for having devoted so much space to bait fishing, while, with equal humility, I entreat the pardon of the bait fisher for allotting so many pages to fly fishing." Platt's recommended reading on the subject of entomology is W.G. Bainbridge's The Fly-fisher's Guide to Aquatic Flies. Some of the material in the text was first published in the Field and the Salmon and Trout Magazine, and no less than H.D. Turing and G.E.M. Skues helped prepare the manuscript. Chapters include: Trout and trout fishing; Trout rode; Other tackle; Casting the fly; Striking, playing, and landing; Knots; Wet-fly fishing; Dry-fly fishing; Artificial may-fly fishing; Nymph fishing; Lake fishing; Bustard fishing; The fly rod and the minnow; Spinning for trout - baits and tackle; Spinning for trout - methods; Clear-water wormin; Thick-water worming; Stone-fly and creeper fishing; Dapping with the may-fly and 'Daddy'; Shade fishing; Other bait fishing; thames trouting; Sea trout fishing; Familiar trout flies and their dressing; What's what in trout fishing. Appendix: Evolution of the fixed-spool reel.