ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2010). (2010) 2024 reprint. Small square spiral-bound paperback (128 x 155mm). Pp96. Colour photographs throughout, maps, charts. Stiff card covers. Fine new copy. This compact pocket book - the first ever to feature the natural insect next to its matching artificial fly - arms the angler with all the information he needs to select the right fly from his flybox. Superb photographs of aquatic insects (larvae, pupae, adults) with the artificial flies positioned alongside them. Contents include: Times of hatching; Geographical distribution; River fly or lake fly - or both; Life cycles of the insects; Clues from the river and from the trout's behaviour. The many excellent photographs have been taken by Dr Cyril Bennett who is one of the UK's leading entomologists, specialising in river insects. Some of the species presented here have never been photographed before, and are published for the first time in this authoritative and useful book. .

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Title: POCKET GUIDE TO MATCHING THE HATCH. By Peter Lapsley & Dr. Cyril Bennett.
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books. Ludlow, Shropshire. 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1906122202
ISBN 13: 9781906122201
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: new

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"This compact, little pocket book ― the first ever to feature the natural insect next to its matching artificial fly ― arms the angler with all the information he needs to select the right fly from his flybox.

- Superb photographs of aquatic insects (larvae, pupae, adults)
with the artificial flies positioned alongside them
- Times of hatching
- The geographical distribution
- Whether it is a river fly or a lake fly, or both
- Life cycles of the insects
- Clues from the river and from the trout's behaviour

Peter Lapsley contributes regularly to Flyfishing & Flytying and is author of several fishing books. He is a qualified national game angling instructor.

Dr Cyril Bennett is one of the UK's leading entomologists, specialising in river insects. His photographs of insects ― some never before captured on camera ― add a unique element to this book. "

About the Author

"Peter Lapsley has been fishing for trout, sea trout and grayling in the UK and overseas for over 50 years and is a qualified game angling instructor.

He has contributed countless articles to a wide range of British and overseas game angling and field sports magazines. This is the eleventh book he has written or co-written.

Although he lives in London and fishes chiefly on the chalkstreams and stillwaters of southern England, Peter retains a passion for the lovely wild-trout waters of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, of the north and south-west England.

He is married with two children. "

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