3 x HEAVY 1957 "THE ART OF ANGLING" FISHING ILLUSTRATED HARDBACK BOOKS. 3 x HEAVY 1957 "THE ART OF ANGLING" FISHING ILLUSTRATED HARDBACK BOOKS
Three great HEAVY fishing hardback books from 1957 on the art of angling. Volumes 1, 2 & 3. Contains great photos, illustrations and information. Covers and pages are in nice condition.
There are so many contents pages I cant take photos of them all so here are the chapters typed out:
Volume 1
- PART 1 - THE PAGEANT OF ANGLING
- Angling in ancient times
- English angling literature
- PART 2 - FISHING IN THE BRITISH ISLES
- Fishing in England
- Fishing in Ireland
- Fishing in Scotland
- Fishing in Wales
- PART 3 - THE ANGLER'S EQUIPMENT
- Tackle
- Rod making
- Fly dressing
- Tackle making
- PART 4 - SEA FISHING
- Life in the sea
- Tides & their effect on fishing
- Sea fishing baits
- Angling from the shore
- Bass and bass fishing
- Flounders and flounder fishing
- Grey mullet
- Mackerel and mackerel fishing
- Pollack and pollack fishing
- Other species caught from the shore
- Boat fishing
- Tope and Tope fishing
- British tunny fishing
- Shark angling in British waters
Volume 2 - PART 5 - COARSE FISHING
- Barbel and Barbel fishing
- Bream and bream fishing
- Carp and carp fishing
- Angling for Crucian carp
- Chub and chub fishing
- Dace and dace fishing
- The common eel
- Gudgeon and gudgeon fishing
- Perch and perch fishing
- Pike and pike fishing
- Roach and roach fishing
- Rudd and rudd fishing
- Tench and tench fishing
- Small fry and unusual fish
- Hybrids, cross-breeds and monsters
- The introduction of foreign fish to Britain
- Baits
- Ground baits
- PART 6 - MATCH FISHING
- Match fishing
- Angling arithmetic
- PART 7 - COOKING THE CATCH
- Fish cookery and fish sauces
- Cooking game fish
- Cooking coarse fish
- Cooking sea fish
- Cooking shellfish
Volume 3 - PART 8 - GAME FISHING
- The salmon
- Fly fishing for salmon
- Lure and bait fishing for salmon
- The sea trout
- The biology of the trout
- Chalk-stream fishing
- River trouting with the sunken fly
- Trout: bait fishing and spinning
- Dry-fly fishing on rain-fed rivers
- The wet fly in still waters
- Grayling and grayling fishing
- Char and whitefish
- Aspects of Loch fishing
- PART 9 - SCIENCE AND THE ANGLER
- How science aids the angler
- The fish and its environment
- Fish biology
- Reading fish scales
- Fish pond culture
- PART 10 - THE ANGLER AND THE LAW
- The law
- Polution
See photos for contents pages and examples of pages inside.
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