THE MAYFLY AND THE TROUT. By Malcolm Greenhalgh.

2011 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp200. Colour plates of flies, colour photographs. Blue boards, spine titled in silver gilt.

Flyfishers "talk of the many flies that the trout they try to catch might eat - olive duns, march browns, yellow sallys, hawthorn flies, black gnats, grannom and great red sedges. Then there are buzzers, daddy-long-legs and the diminutive angler's curse. But one item of trout food stands out from these and all others, that most supreme of flies - mayfly. On the chalk and limestone streams of England and the superb western Irish loughs the mayfly provides the most important and most sought-after few days of the trout-fishing season, the glorious mayfly time." Chapters include; the mayfly and its life history; imitating mayflies; mayfly experiences; a mayfly anthology.