SALTWATER FLYFISHING: BRITAIN and NORTHERN EUROPE by Paul Morgan and friends.

1998 1st edition. 8vo (170 x 246mm). Pp263. Colour photographs, illustrations, extensive bibliography. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and bass motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt.

Saltwater flyfishermen from all over northern Europe contribute information on methods, places and patterns for catching saltwater fish on the fly. Species covered include salmon, sea-trout, bass, pollack and coalfish, mullet, garfish, flatties and cod; and the area covered is from north Norway to southern Ireland. The contributors include Mike Ladle on bass and mullet, Stan Headley on Orkney sea-trout and many European experts from Norwegian cod to Baltic sea-trout. Included are extracts from the existing literature on saltwater flyfishing by John Bickerdyke, Fred Aflalo, Sidney Spencer, Stephen Johnson and others. Extensive bibliographies of sea-trout and of saltwater flyfishing are included.