THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT FISHERIES. By John Watson. With a foreword by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. Illustrated.

(1899) 1925 revised edition. 8vo (150 x 217mm). Ppxvi,271. Illustrated with 12 photograph plates and with line drawings. Binding B. Green cloth-backed boards, gilt spine title, top edge green, deckled edges.

"If ...there is but little material to build upon, this volume may be looked upon less critically than otherwise it might be. At worst it may form the foundation for the work of some future angler historian. I hope, however, that what is set down may be found at least suggestive, and of a fairly practical nature. To ensure partly the latter element I have revisited and fished almost every lake and river of the district, not omitting the almost innumerable mountain tarns." Chapters include: The rivers of the district I - the Kent, Mint, Sprint; The rivers of the district II - the Bela, Lune, Winster, Crake, Duddon, Leven; Adjacent salmon and trout rivers I - the Eden; Adjacent salmon and trout rivers II - the Derwent; Windermere; Ullswater; Coniston Lake; Derwentwater; The smaller lakes I - Buttermere, Crummock, Loweswater, etc; The smaller lakes I - Rydal Water, Grasmere, Esthwaite Water, etc; Mountain tarns; Tarns and smaller streams; Notes on the natural history of the fishes of the district I - game fish; Notes on the natural history of the fishes of the district II - coarse fish; The char - char fishing; Lake and river flies; Improvement of fisheries - re-stocking; Nature by the waterside - friends and enemies of fisheries. Appendices are: Plumb-line fishing for char; Bobbing; Close times in the five north-western fishery districts; Distributors of licences in the Kent (Lake District) Fishery District; Angling associations in the Lake District.