Brook and river trouting / A manual of modern north country methods, with coloured illustrations of flies and fly-dressing materials

The Wharfe near Burnsall.
Photo by Mr. L. A. Edmonds


A Manual of modern North Country methods
With Coloured Illustrations of Flies and Fly-Dressing Materials
By HARFIELD H. EDMONDS NORMAN N. LEE
Published by the Authors, 23, Bank Street, Bradford. All rights reserved


When the writers began to take a practical interest in trout fly dressing, they experienced great difficulty in determining the correct feathers for the various patterns, as the older books on the subject of North Country flies are vague in the extreme. The few more modern writers on wet flies, for want of precision, have done little to help the beginner to a proper appreciation of his materials. It was therefore felt that a book, which not only prescribed the exact part of a bird from which the correct feathers should be taken, but illustrated such feathers and other materials (as also the flies made therefrom), in colour, would be a help, at least to beginners in the craft, and not merely an encumbrance on angling literature.