THE PURSUIT OF STILLWATER TROUT. By Brian Clarke.

1975 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp191. Colour plates, b/w photographs, illustrations. Fawn boards, spine titled in gilt.

"A milestone in angling literature". Tom Ivens' "Stillwater fly-fishing" and Clarke's "The pursuit of stillwater trout" marked the transition of stillwater trout fishing in Britain from traditional loch-style to modern imitative methods. This was really the first book to set out in a logical way the thought processes which led the author to be able to choose one fly in preference to another, knowing that he had made a reasoned and sensible choice. The novice, faced with a huge expanse of water, and without the experience of previous successes, lacks the confidence that a trout would want to eat his patently artificial lure. This book provides the reasoning for him to decide on fly pattern and method. Copies of the various reprints are always in stock. A very good copy in a dust-wrapper would be GBP 20.00.