THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO FRESHWATER FISHING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND: FOR COARSE AND GAME ANGLERS. By Ted Lamb.

THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO FRESHWATER FISHING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND: FOR COARSE AND GAME ANGLERS. By Ted Lamb.

AUTUMNS ON THE SPEY. By A.E. Knox, M.A., F.L.S. With four illustrations by Wolf. Flyfisher's Classic Library edition.

AUTUMNS ON THE SPEY. By A.E. Knox, M.A., F.L.S. With four illustrations by Wolf. Flyfisher's Classic Library edition.

RIVER ANGLING FOR SALMON AND TROUT. By John Younger. With a memoir, and list of the Tweed salmon casts.

(1840) 1995 new edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxvii,222. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Quarter-bound in dark red bonded leather over red cloth, gilt FFCL motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt, silk marker ribbon, marbled end-papers. Dark red cloth slipcase. Edition limited to 1000 copies.

Reprinted from the third edition of 1864, which includes a memoir of the author as well as a chapter on creeper fishing and several other notes by an anonymous editor. Younger was a shoe-maker from St Boswells on Tweed. His salmon patterns pre-date those of Scrope (1843), and represent the classic old Tweed flies. Includes as a preface Arthur Ransome's biographical note on Younger taken from "Mainly About Fishing." Chapters include: Eight-page essay by Arthur Ransome, The Shoemaker of St. Boswells; Sketch of the author's, by the Editor; Remarks preliminary; Salmon flies - unkown natural causes prevent salmon taking, nature not imitated in flies, flies reduced to six distinct kinds; Miscellaneous observations on salmon flies - to vary the three first flies, size of flies of more importance than colour; Trout flies, natural and artificial; Curious phenomena relative to the 'taking' of salmon and trout; Miscellaneous observations on trouting, trout flies, tackle and rods; On the dressing of flies - salmon flies and trout flies; Casting or wheel lines; Fishing rods; Salmon angling - throwing the line, striking, working the line, not to become flustered in a run; General observations on salmon angling; Trout angling; Angling with worm for salmon; Angling with worm for trout; Angling with minnow; Angling with par-tail; Angling with roe; Creeper fishing, by the Editor; Stone-fly fishing, by the Editor; Worms and worm angling, by the Editor; Scrap - notes on water insects, biographical etc., by the Editor; Descriptive list of salmon rod casts in the Tweed, including the names of proprietors; Descriptive list of the tributaries of the Tweed for trout anglers, by the Editor.
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Author Younger (John). (1785-1860).
Book Code 41057
ISBN B001AVY2V6.
Book Description Small mark to cloth otherwise a fine second-hand copy in slip-case.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1995
Publisher The Flyfisher's Classic Library.
Place Bovey Tracey, Devon.