THE FLY AND THE FISH. By John Atherton.

(1951) 2006 paperback facsimile of 1971 Freshet Press edition. 8vo (155 x 234mm). Ppxii,196. The 2 colour plates of flies are reproduced on the inside covers, b/w illustrations by the author throughout.

John Atherton, a world-renowned artist, was one of the great American flyfishermen of the earlier years of the twentieth century. He and his a fellow-members of the Angler's Club of New York, "Sparse Grey Hackle," Edward Ringwood Hewitt and John McDonald, led the way in flyfishing and fly-tying theory and practice. Chapters on flies and impressionism, nymphs and spiders, trout, steelhead and salmon flies, and the Neversink river.