SALMON FISHING

R453.00

CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • 1-4 Life History
  • 5-7 Literature
  • 8-9 Tackle
  • 10. Salmon-Hooks
  • 11. Gut, Casts, Etc.
  • 12. Knots and Splices
  • 13. Casting a Salmon-Fly
  • 14-21. The Practice of Fishing with the Sunk Fly
  • 22. The Choice and Meaning of a Salmon-Fly
  • 23. Transitional
  • 24. Greased-Line Fishing
  • 25. Fly-Dressing Materials
  • 26-28. Some Ways of Tying Salmon-Flies
  • 29. A Modern System of Fly-Tying
  • 30-31. The Evolution of the Salmon-Fly
  • 32 Fishing the Minnow and Spoon
  • 33. Fishing with Worm and Prawn
  • 34. Repairs and Salvage
  • 35. Day-Fly Fishing
  • 36. Shrimp-Fishing
  • 37. Scales: Their Formation and Uses
  • 38. The River Shannon
  • 39. Some Names of Salmon Pools
  • 40. The Legal Aspect of Fishing
  • 41. The Cooking of Fish
  • 42-43. The Salmon River

 

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Authored by Eric Taverner and published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd of London in 1931. Hard cover bound this First Edition copy is in Very Good condition, covered in plastic and without a dust jacket. The size of the book is 221x153x55mm. Book is somewhat faded on covers, gold titles on spine not easily legible, top edge coloured brown, other edges somewhat yellowed as could be expected, all pages yellowed esp the b &w photos. Colour frontispiece of salmon flies, 111 photographic plates of which 2 in col, 214 illustrations in text, end-paper maps. With contributions by G.M.L.La Branche, Eric Parker, W.J.M.Menzies, J.A.Rennie, A.H.E.Wood, Wyndham Forbes, Thomas Rook & Alban Baker. The Lonsdale Library attempted to provide the most comprehensive coverage of sporting subjects and in this book has succeeded. Front end paper cracked. Booked bound with endpapers upside down.

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