POCKET GUIDE TO MATCHING THE HATCH. By Peter Lapsley and Dr. Cyril Bennett.

(2010) 2024 reprint. Small square spiral-bound paperback (128 x 155mm). Pp96. Colour photographs throughout, maps, charts. Stiff card covers.

This compact pocket book - the first ever to feature the natural insect next to its matching artificial fly - arms the angler with all the information he needs to select the right fly from his flybox. Superb photographs of aquatic insects (larvae, pupae, adults) with the artificial flies positioned alongside them. Contents include: Times of hatching; Geographical distribution; River fly or lake fly - or both; Life cycles of the insects; Clues from the river and from the trout's behaviour. The many excellent photographs have been taken by Dr Cyril Bennett who is one of the UK's leading entomologists, specialising in river insects. Some of the species presented here have never been photographed before, and are published for the first time in this authoritative and useful book.