THE ANGLER AND THE TROUT. By Huish Edye (Distoffer).

(1941) 1945 reprint. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppx,171. B/w photographs. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

Reminiscences and sound advice on fishing for trout and sea-trout on the chalkstreams and the rivers and brooks of the West Country. "If those who should read this book do so, its sale will be prodigious... dyed-in-the-wool purists will find much to stir their one-track minds." (Angling, July-September 1941). Chapters include: Anglers and anglers; The angler's gear; The angler's fly-box; Anglers' mentality; A trout season in retrospect; A day retrieved; The mannerisms of big trout; Angler's make-believe; Sermons in books; Anglers' manners; Before the rise; Trout time is cuckoo time; A fishing diary and some reflections; When is a fly not a fly?; Stock and stocking; Peal; Errors and omissions excepted.