HAUNTS AND HINTS FOR ANGLERS

FISHING RESORTS ALONG THE HOLIDAY LINE

***THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION***

10cm tear to front cover along spine, wrappers slightly frayed along edges as usual, a little browning and creasing to first few pages but still overall a good-plus example of the very scarce first edition.

1914 1st edition. 8vo paperback (145 x 222mm). Pp261 + 19pp ads. B/w photographs, two folding maps tipped in at rear, advertisements. Slightly oversized off-white wrappers, front cover and spine titled in green, rear cover printed with advert for Fry's Pure Cocoa and Vinello Chocolate.

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"A Piscatorial Travel-Book."

A guide to fishing locations along the GWR network. This is the very scarce 1914 first edition. This edition includes a section on angling in Ireland which was removed from the 1925 second edition. The two folding maps tipped in at the rear of the book illustrate the northern and southern sections of the Great Western Railway.

Contents include:-

SEA SECTION - Introduction; General remarks on sea fish; Hints on rods and tackle; Boats suitable for sea anglers; Pier, rock and shore fishing; Tides and their relation to sea angling; The Dorset coast - Lulworth Cove to Bridport; South Devon - The Exe to the Yealm; Plymouth Sound; The fishing towns of South Cornwall; Mount's Bay - the Mecca of sea anglers; The north coast of Cornwall; The Bristol Channel; South West Wales; Cardigan Bay;

FRESHWATER SECTION - Introduction; Some game and general fish - how and where to catch them; The angler's tackle and baits; Where to fish the Thames; Thames tributaries; Devonshire and Cornwall; The sinuous Severn; Severn tributaries; Somerset, Wilts, Hampshire and Dorset rivers; Blagdon Lake; The rod in Warwickshire; Some Gloucestershire streams; Reservoir fishing; Some G.W.R. canals; The Wye and tributaries; The Dee and Bala Lake; The Usk and tributaries; Other Welsh waters;

IRISH SECTION - Sea angling; Salmon angling; Trout angling; South-eastern counties; South-western counties; Lough Derg; General fishing; West of Ireland.