SUCCESSFUL ANGLING: COARSE FISHING TACKLE AND METHODS. By Richard Walker, Fred J. Taylor, Fred Buller and Hugh Falkus.

(1977) later paperback reprint. 8vo paperback (135 x 215mm). Pp152. B/w photographs and line illustrations, bibliography.

"Four of the leading authorities on freshwater fishing - each one a household name - have finally got together to produce a book with the sole aim of helping anglers catch more fish." This book "assumes a basic knowledge of tackle and methods... and concentrates instead on the skills and the application of recent scientific innovations which in the opinion of the authors are least known - or least understood - and of most use". Includes a bibliography giving the authors' favourite angling books as well as those written by them. Chapters include: 'Secrets' of success; The influence of the weather; Feeding habits; Senses; Intelligence; Hookbaits; Groundbait; Groundbaiting devices; Rods; Reels; Lines; Hooks, leads and swivels; Nets; The link-ledger; Bite-indicators; Night fishing; [Float] design and application; Some finer points of float fishing in running water; Special floats and their uses (the trotter; the shot-dragger; the ducker; the wire avon; stret-pegging; aspects of lift-fishing; the windbeater; the zoomer; the cocktail); Float-ledgering; Paternostering; Spinning; Trailing; Fly-fishing; An ingenious method.