POUL JORGENSEN'S FAVORITE FLIES AND HOW TO TIE THEM. By Poul Jorgensen.

2000 1st edition. Oblong 4to (243 x 215mm). Pp161. Colour photographs throughout, b/w illustrations. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is an expanded and updated version of "Modern fly dressings for the practical angler". The author discusses the entomology relevant to a numberof classes of fly patterns before giving detailed instructions for tying a number of useful flies for trout, sea trout and salmon. A chapter on pike flies is included. Many good step-by-step photographs accompany an interesting, discursive text by this accomplished enthusiast. Insects, materials, mayfly nymphs, mayfly duns and spinners, caddisflies, stonefly nymphs, hellgrammite larvae and crustaceans, terrestrial insects, coastal flies (sea trout, with reference to Denmark), Northern pike flies.