THE ANGLE OF THE CAST. By Gwilym Hughes.

2009 1st edition. 8vo paperback (146 x 209mm). Pp236,ads. Colour plates of flies, colour and b/w photographs.

This is the autobiography of Gwilym Hughes, Hardy Fly Fishing School instructor, former Welsh International, sometime policeman and lifetime angler. The book includes information on, and good colour photographs, of fifty-six useful Welsh flies. Chapters include: Sowing the fishing seed; Home, tackle, my first seatrout and some tales; Fishing, a hobby, obssession, or both?; My first real fly rod, lobsters and shrimps; Introduction to lake fishing and my first salmon; Bailiffing; Moving on in life and mapping my future; Strange characters and chasing that elusive Cap; fly fishing, the competitive side; A double sting and 'Bugging'; The River Internationals; Changing my life course, STANIC and APGAI; River fishing, trout and grayling; The seatrout; The Atlantic salmon; Boat fishing lakes and reservoirs; The river flies; The lake and reservoir flies; My favourite salmon flies; My favourite brown trout river; Other species on fly; The future, what is in store?