FISHING

FACT OR FANTASY?

By G.D. Luard

Foxing to end-papers, slight marks and fading to cloth but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper.

From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in.

1947 1st edition. 8vo (132 x 207mm). Pp239. B/w illustrations. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt.

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Reminiscences of fishing for trout, salmon and sea trout around England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Also includes a little on fishing in France's river Var and the Italian lakes.

Contents include:- Fisherman's madness - verse; Foreword by the author; The river: A winter's walk; Wales; Upstream worm; Thunderstorm and harvest flood; Salmon: An early attempt; The big river once more; Five in one day; Beginner's luck; The 'Little Water', rediscovered; Fact or fantasy; Sea trout: Connemara I - a strange experience; Sea trout: Connemara II - a quarrel made up; Salmon again: Aberdeenshire Dee; Scotland again: The Don; The Nore; Sea trout: Westmorland once more; Enton; Luck (not beginner's); The County Clare; How the 'Collagh' won a bet; Sea trout: The Mull of Kintyre; The Var again ('Geste' the first; 'Geste' the second; 'Geste' the third); Blagdon in war time: First visit; Blagdon in war time: Second visit; Blagdon in war time: Third visit; After many years: Dee and Don once again; The Italian lakes; Grecian River - verse.