THE TROUT AND THE KINGFISHER

SELECTED ARTICLES ON AFRICAN TROUT FISHING

(1875 - 1975)

Edited by Malcolm Meintjes

Slight browning to closed page edges otherwise a very good clean hardback.

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

1993 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 217mm). Ppiv,155. Colour photograph plates, b/w photographs. Pictorial laminated boards. Issued without a dust-wrapper.

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Selected articles from the pages of Piscator, the journal of the Cape Piscatorial Society.

Contents include:- Early trout troubles of fifty years ago by A.C. Harrison; Below the Faure Weir by "Kingfisher"; Early recollections by Lt.-Col. H. Birch-Reynardson; Early recollections part II by Lt.-Col. H. Birch-Reynardson; Reflections on the Junction Pool by Mary Chaplin; Early recollections part III by Lt.-Col. H. Birch-Reynardson; Early recollections part IV by Lt.-Col. H. Birch-Reynardson; Letters to the editor by W.M. Saltmarsh; The fetish of the big fly by R. Johnston; The fishes' answer by "Haggers"; A lovely rainbow from Gemfana Water by Chas. H. Steadman; Trout are where you find them by H.C. Saunders; Rainbow trout caught in the sea at Muizenberg by A.C. Harrison; Three four-pounders before breakfast by "Kingfisher"; Luck of the devil! by Colin Kisch; Springtime on the Wildebeeste by H.C. Saunders; Strange doings on the Wemmer by Lawrence Kingma; Big fellows by H.C. Saunders; Early recollections part VI by Lt.-Col. H. Birch-Reynardson [not sure where part V went to?]; Trout fishing in Transvaal streams by J.H. Yates; Bright doings at Dullstroom by Gavin LeStrange; A visit to an angler's paradise by J.D. Wares; The Haenertsburg Trout Association by J.L. Stewart; Further large rainbow trout from Matatiele by A.C. Harrison; Basutoland mountain trout by Robert Forson; Cannibal trout by Edmund Carey; The Semonkong trout by Capt. K.E. Shortt-Smith; Rainbow trout at Ox Bow, Basutoland by Capt. K.E. Shortt-Smith; Big rainbows in willow-hung 'canal water' by F.J.D. Stokes-Waller; Maragua by E.V. Stobbs-Stobart; The large Harrismith brown trout were not taken by angling; A novice on the Umzimkulu by Lawrie Kingma; Natal notebook by John Beams; A South African record rainbow trout by A.C. Harrison; Letters to the editor by Capt. C. Struben; Trout fishing at Inyanga, S. Rhodesia by P.St. J. Turnbull-Kemp; Trout fishing at Inyanga by Peter Jooste; The Wemmer - Autumn 1959 by Lawrie Kingma; Fishing the Witels by W.G. McNaughton.