TYING AND FISHING TERRESTRIALS. By Gerald Almy.

1978 1st edition. 4to (192 x 240mm). Pp238. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"In the last few years, an important 'second season' of fly fishing has been developed around imitatin the land-born insects - the terrestrials - that become an important part of the trout's diet in midsummer and (autumn). With the reissue in 1970 of Vincent Marinaro's classic A Modern Dry Fly Code, terestrial fishing began gradually to develop alongside other forms of dry fly fishing, and is now a permanent feature of the angling year. With this new fly fishing tactic have come new patterns and techniques, perfected by the process of careful streamside observation and flytying invention. And it has brought (this book), the first in-depth treatment of terrestrial fishing for the modern angler. Chapters include: The great horde; Stream strategy; Tying the land flies; Ants, sawflies, bees, wasps; Beetles; Grasshoppers, crickets, (cock)roaches; Caterpillars, butterflies, moths; Leafhoppers, treehoppers, cicadas; Minor terrestrials.