THE ATLANTIC SALMON HANDBOOK: A COMPACT GUIDE TO ALL ASPECTS OF FLY FISHING FOR THE KING OF GAME FISH. By Peter Bodo. Illustrated by Jonathan Milo.

1997 1st edition. Paperback issue. 4to paperback (175 x 252mm). Ppxxiv,196. Colour plates of flies, b/w photographs, illustrations.

An Atlantic Salmon Federation Book. "An introduction to and an overview of salmon fishing." "This book's triumph is that it manages to demystify the fishing without demystifying the fish, for which both the Atlantic salmon and its new generation of enthusiasts should be grateful." (E. Donnal Thomas, Jr.). Chapters include: This unique fish; Salmon country; When to go; Gearing up; The flies; On the river; Fishing the wet fly; Fishing the dry fly; Hooking and playing, landing and releasing; Tips for difficult salmon; Etiquette and ethics. The first appendix gives a very useful province by province guide to the public salmon fishing in Eastern Maine and Canada. The second appendix gives catch statistics, covering the same region, for the period 1991 to 1996.