THE NEW ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FLOAT FISHING. By Billy Lane and Colin Graham.

1981 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp144. B/w photographs, line drawings by Jim Randell. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is the revised edition of "Billy Lane's Encyclopaedia of Float Fishing". "In these pages you will find floats, old and new. The important thing about them is that as far as the authors are concerned they are sufficient to fish every kind of water for every sort of fish - big or small. Every one of them has stood Billy Lane in good stead in practical angling conditions over the years. The authors have treated the floats mentioned in the book in a logical sequence, starting with the simplest float for the simplest conditions and going on from there to the more complex ones." Chapters include: The crowquill; The reverse crowquill - darts - onions; The zoomer and the mini-missile; The sliding peacock antenna and the missile; The Avon, chubber and the sliding chubber; The stick, the wire-stemmed stick, the balsa and the sliding balsa; The ducker and its alternatives; The Trent trotter; The trout trotter; Pole float basics.