FLY FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND : A New Edition

Auckland, New Zealand: William Heinemann, 1972. New Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Green boards/NF w/trace push to corner tips. DJ/NF, under mylar. Distillation of some fifty years of fishing experience by George Ferris, who first took to the sport as a child in Ireland, and knows nearly all waterways of New Zealand. First published 1954; this is the New Edition of 1972. 13 chapters: 1, The Choice of Equipment; 2, Entomology in Theory; 3, Entomology in Practice; 4, Casting the Fly; 5. An Introduction to Dry Fly Fishing; 6, Dry Fly Fishing: The River; 7, Dry Fly Fishing: Mainly Tactical; 8, Night Fishing with the Dry Fly; 9, The Mystery of the Take; 10, Fishing the Nymph; 11, Dry Fly Fishing: The Lake; 12, Lake Fishing: The Wet Fly; 13, Sundry Observations & Opinions; 14, Patience & the Ethics of Sportsmanship; and, 15, The Trout is Cooked. Fine copy.