TROUT FISHING, ANY LUCK?,Connett,1939,HCDJ,FLY FISHING For Sale

FLY FISHING

ANY LUCK?

A BOOK OF PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR EVERY FLY FISHERMAN

by

EUGENE V. CONNETT, 3RD.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

GEORGE M. L. LA BRANCHES

WINDWARD HOUSE

GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.

NEW YORK

1939

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"A BOOK FOR ALL TROUT FISHERMEN BY AN ANGLER OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION. HERE IS A WEALTH OF PRACTICAL ADVICE ON EVERY SUBJECT RELATING TO RODS, TACKLE, STREAM TACTICS, THE HABITS OF TROUT, MIXED IN WITH DELIGHTFULLY TOLD REMINISCENCES OF DAYS SPENT ON MANY A STREAM HERE AND ABROAD."

"HERE IS AN EXPERT, PRACTICAL AND UP TO DATE ADVICE ON SUCH ALL IMPORTANT MATATERS AS TACKLE; HOW TO SELECT RODS, FLIES, REELS, CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES..; CASTING THE FLY; HOW TO GET THE BEST RESULTS FROM WET OR DRY FLY; THE ART OF HOOKING AND PLAING; AND HOW TO GET TO KNOW THE HABITS OF TROUT.   MISED IN WITH THIS USEFUL INFORMATION ARE A HOST OF REMINISCENCES OF FISHING IN THIS COUNTRY AND ABROAD, DELIGHTFULLY TOLD, AND SEASONED WITH WIT."

"FURNISHING BOTH THE EXPERIENCED FISHERMAN AND THE BEGINNER WITH MUCH DEFINITE INFORMATION ON HOW TOG ET BETTER FISHING, THIS BOOK BELONGS TO THE AUTHENTIC LITERATURE OF FISHING, A BOOK OF WHICH NEITHER IZAAK WALTON, FRANK FORESTER, NOR HENRY VAN DYKE WOULD HAVE BEEN ASHAMED."

"THE DELIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATIONS ARE BY RALPH BOYER."

CONTENTS...

THE FLY ROD LINES AND REELS FLIES ACCESSORIES CLOTHING CASTING THE FLY HOOKING AND PLAYING SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DRY FLY FISHING SOME ANGLING CLOSE UPS MAKING THE MOST OF TROUT WATERS SOME THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE ANGLER THE INSTINCTS OF TROUT THE TROUT AND THE ANGLER LOOK AT EACH OTHER IN THE TAIL OF THE FLAT THE WILLOWEMOC, NEW YORK RANDOM CASTS CONCERNING SOME LARGE BROOK TROUT MAGIC HOURS REFLECTIONS ON ENGLISH CHALK STREAMS THE WYE, HERFORDSHIRE A CONSERVATIVE TROUT STREAM

THIS BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.  THE PAGES HAVE YELLOWED.  THE DUSTJACKET IS LIGHTLY SOILED WITH CREASES AND SMALL RIPS.  THE COVER IS LIGHTLY SOILED, EDGES AND CORNERS GENTLY BUMPED AND SCRAPED.  THE BINDING IS TIGHT AND ALL PAGES INTACT. THERE ARE 231 PAGES AND MANY PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

 

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