ERNEST CROSFIELD

HIS SALMON FLIES AND FISHING

Compiled and edited by Colin Innes

Angling Monographs No. 8.

A very good second-hand paperback.

Number 247 of a limited edition of only 250 numbered paperbound copies.

Signed by the author, Colin Innes.

2017 1st edition. Paperback issue. 8vo paperback (158 x 233mm). Pp107 + 1pp ads. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Green card covers with flaps.

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Volume number eight in the Coch-y-Bonddu Books Angling Monographs series.

This first edition was limited to just 250 numbered paperbacks and twenty-six lettered hardback copies. A handful of un-numbered review copies were also produced.

"Crosfield was the greatest salmon fly tyer of his day..." (Eric Taverner, writing in the Lonsdale Library, Salmon Fishing, 1931). "Ernest Morland Crosfield (1857-1925) was one of the most influential salmon anglers and fly-tyers of the early 1900s. Unfortunately, although he wrote a couple of articles and kept a detailed record of his catches in his game book, he never consolidated his thoughts into a book. Others thought highly enough of him to record his fishing and fly-tying methods, but this material is contained in a diverse range of publications, not all of it easily accessible. In this book Colin Innes has gathered together Crosfield's articles, together with published and unpublished articles written about him, and even provided pictures of salmon flies tied by the man himself. It will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of salmon fishing and fly-tying in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It will also provide the salmon fly-tyer who wants to tie the 'Crosfield style' with ample instruction, importantly backed up with illustrations of what the finished fly should look like." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- Preface; Acknowledgements; Obituary; Game Fish Records, by 'Jock Scott'; British Sports and Sportsmen; Past and Present; The Evolution of the Salmon Fly, by T E Pryce-Tannatt from The Field Annual, 1952; Notes on Tying Salmon Flies, by 'Poacher' from The Salmon and Trout Magazine, Number 31, January 1923; Fly-Tying for Salmon, by Eric Taverner in The Lonsdale Library: Salmon Fishing; About Fishing, by Robert Hartman; Farlows catalogues: 1920s - 1930s; Summer Salmon Fishing, by the late E M Crosfield from Fisherman's Pie, edited by W A Hunter; Greased Line Fishing for Salmon, by 'Jock Scott'; Fine and Far Off, by 'Jock Scott'; The Floating Line for Salmon and Sea-Trout, by Anthony Crossley; Ernest Crosfield's flies and patterns.