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Bridges, Modern Salmon Fishing.

Bridges, Modern Salmon Fishing.

Bridges, Anthony. Modern Salmon Fishing. Second Edition. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1969. 22.4cm x 14.5cm. xx, 229 (5) pages. With frontispiece photograph. Seventeen plates and thirty-four line illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following chapters: The delicate art of wading/ Sunk fly-gear/ The mechanics of fly-casting/ Packing and cooking salmon/ Greased line/ Dapping/ Dry fly/ Spinning gear/ Spinning in heavy water/ Spinning in low water/ Roving a prawn/ Worming/ Salmon in lakes/ How a river can be improved etc.

In this new wdition of ‘Modern Salmon Fishing’ the revolution gear is noted, with its impact on old established methods and its possibilities for new. Here are the tools and their uses. Before the line cuts the black water as a wire cuts cheese, there is a craft to be learned, but it will be made easier by this comprehensive study of first things.

Our price: EUR 28,-- 

Bridges-Modern Salmon Fishing
Bridges-Modern Salmon Fishing

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