Fishing in British Columbia: With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina
by T.W. Lambert
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Citrus Heights, California, United States
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About This Item
White Rock, British Columbia. Pices Press. 1997. 148 pp. 8 vo. First De Luxe Edition. This is Letter J of 26 lettered copies. Signed by W. Ric Olmsted and Peter Addison. Foreword by Arthur Lingren and also signed by him. A ten page Afterword by Ric Olmsted. This limited edition is printed on fine laid paper. This is a beautiful reprint of the 1907 first edition published by Horace Cox, London. This book is important for many reasons - it was written by a man who processed an abiding interest in fishing as much of the lower province's waters as he was able, and to accurately describe it - It's the first written description of playing and later catching steelhead on the Thompson River and its tributaries - Dr. Lambert's warning of the impending destruction of fish habitat by commercial interests, and his belief that the government should play a role in protecting it. The Afterword by Ric (who, sadly, has passed away), was written from first-hand experience and knowledge, projects this book into the present with his description of the constraints and government imposed restrictions currently hindering anadromous fish stocks. The book is bound in half blue leather and blue cloth with gilt titles on the front cover and spine. Housed in a matching blue cloth slip case. A beautiful book. In fine condition. . Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books (US)
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- 000340
- Title
- Fishing in British Columbia: With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina
- Author
- T.W. Lambert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
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About the Seller
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Biblio member since 2008
Citrus Heights, California
About Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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