STONEFLIES FOR THE ANGLER: HOW TO KNOW THEM, TIE THEM AND FISH THEM. By Eric Leiser and Robert Boyle.

1982 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 242mm). Ppxii,178. Colour plates of flies, b/w photographs, line illustrations. Teal paper-covered boards to brown cloth spine with gilt titles, blind-stamped fish illustration to upper board.

Everything the angler needs to know about the stoneflies - the Plecoptera - their biology, behaviour, role as food for trout and lots on how to create imitations of them. Chapters include: A fly for all seasons; Stoneflies in perspective; Stonefly families and their relevance to angling; Imitating the stonefly nymph; The secret of the white nymph; Tying and fishing the stonefly adult; Stonefly patterns, nymphs and adults for all seasons, coast to coast; Emergence tables.