PIKE FISHING: RED LETTER DAYS - & OTHERS. WITH HINTS ON SALMON FISHING. By Tom Seccombe Gray. ("Silver Devon").

Published by Heath Cranton Ltd. London. 1923

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Serious foxing to title-page o/w a very good bright copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .

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Title
PIKE FISHING: RED LETTER DAYS - & OTHERS. WITH HINTS ON SALMON FISHING. By Tom Seccombe Gray. ("Silver Devon").
Author
Gray (William Edward Thomas Seccombe). "Silver Devon." (1878-1950).
Publisher
Heath Cranton Ltd. London. 1923
Binding
Hardcover
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1st Edition

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.

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Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd

Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd,, Bull House, 15 Penrallt Street
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