TROUT FISHING AND TROUT FLIES. By Jim Quick.

1957 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 233mm). Ppxx,252. Colour plates of flies, b/w line illustrations.

"A complete handbook of techniques on trout, trout flies and lures. [The author] makes Santa Monica his home, but his fishing excusions have taken him to nearly every area in the United States where trout are to be found". Chapters include: The trout fisherman's equipment; Care of equipment - supplementary information; Leader material - leader knots; 'Basic casting'; Trout - trout history and families, modern hatchery procedure, ways of a trout; 'On the stream'; The little brooks; Lake fishing; From strike to creel; Sprtsmen's ethics; Of flies and their uses; Tools and accessories; Materials and hooks; Basic operations; We construct a fly or two; 'Incidentally...'; Dictionary of productive fly patterns.