GAME FISHING: METHODS AND MEMORIES. By C.W.K. Mundle.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1978). 1978 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Ppx,150. B/w photographs, line drawings by Colin Gibson, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, good-plus in like dust-wrapper. Entertaining anecdotes, techniques and philosophy, mainly on Scottish salmon and trout fishing. Contents include: Beginnings; From trout to salmon; The silvery Tay; North Wales; Eire; Less fortunate forays; The Royal Dee; On the Spey near Carrbridge; In the region of the Morar and Ailort; On the Taymount stretch of the Tay; On the Tay at Ballathie; Around a hill loch near Stranraer; But it does not always work; The policeman's beat; Introducing Harry to the Tay; Great-gran's way with salmon; Bats on the bob fly; A red-letter day; Opportunities missed; Nearly drowned; Nearly eaten alive; Jim's tangle; A salmon lie narrowly avoided; Spey casting; River improvements; Fishing in mixed company; Lassez-faire and its limits; Trout methods; Seatrout methods; Salmon methods; Dubious and nefarious methods; A method of testing different methods; Fishing and 'psychic' phenomena; Propaganda a la Russell; The ethics of angling; The kinds of pleasure for which we fish; From new and familiar waters; From still waters; From the hooking and the fight; From being a nocturnal predator; The end of an era; The end of my angling; Re-learning from the Earn. .…