THE BROOK: THE FLYFISHING ESSAYS OF DAN ASTERLEY. Compiled and Edited by Roger Smith. Angling Monographs Series Volume Eleven. De luxe edition.

2018 1st edition - de luxe issue. 8vo (157 x 234mm). Pp119. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Dark green leather over oatmeal cloth, spine titled in gilt, green angler on cloth. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies, each signed by the publisher.

D.A.N. Asterley (known, of course, as Dan) was the headmaster of a private school in the Worcestershire countryside. His passion was trout fishing, and although he also fished further afield, the place dearest to his heart was "The Brook" - the Leigh Brook, a tributary of the river Teme near Malvern. Dan was a thinking angler and, to our good fortune, he put his thoughts to paper - on the habits and ecology of the trout; the natural flies of the Brook, and the fly-patterns he tied to represent them; his small-stream tactics of dibbing and stalking; and the antics of his fishing-dog, Smuggler. Dan's writing is honest and refreshing, conveying his love of the countryside, and with much useful lore for the flyfisher. Volume Eleven of Coch-y-Bonddu Books Angling Monographs Series.