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Practical Observations on Angling, in the River Trent. By a Gentleman Resident in the Neighbourhood.

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Practical Observations on Angling, in the River Trent. By a Gentleman Resident in the Neighbourhood.

by Charles Snart

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Newark. Printed and Sold by S. and I. Ridge. Sold also by Robinsons, Paternoster-Row, and Crosby and Letterman, Stationers’-Court, London. 1801. First Edition. Octavo. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4). x, 11-130 pp. including index. Text vignettes. With sections on angling for Salmon, Barbel, Perch, Carp, Chub, Grayling, Eels, Eel-Pouts, Tench, Bream, Roach and Dace, Ruff, or Pope, Bleak, Gudgeons, Minnows, Loaches, and Millers’ Thumbs, Trout, and Rud. Also sections on recommended tackle, with rods, lines, floats, hooks, and baits given ample description, and with several paragraphs devoted to fly fishing, although the author was a bait-slinger through-and-through and was unconvinced fly fishing had merit. Also a chapter on "Hints & Observations", which includes weather conditions, river flows, etc. The book is bound in contemporary marbled boards with leather corners, brown morocco spine (rebacked, with gilt title), more recent decorated end papers (all original blank leaves bound-in). A clean, very good book, with wear to the corners and light rubbing to the boards. . First Edition.

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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books US (US)
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Title
Practical Observations on Angling, in the River Trent. By a Gentleman Resident in the Neighbourhood.
Author
Charles Snart
Book Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover

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For questions please telephone 916.728.5019. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Return any book for any reason within 10 days after receiving it and your money will be promptly returned. All returned books must be in same condition in which they were sent. Reciprocal terms to professional members of the trade. California residents please add 7.75% sales tax.

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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books

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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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