ATLANTIC SALMON Fly Fishing Fish Flies Big Game Flyfish

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ATLANTIC SALMON FISHING by Charles Phair 3,000 Copies of this book have been printed for The Premier Collection. This copy is number 319 Rare - Collectible - Great illustrations Publisher: Premier Press, Camden. Publication Date: 1985. Scarce title. 219 pages. Full leather binding with gold stamped decorations, raised bands on spine, head and foot bands, ribbon marker, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers from France, color frontispiece from a oil painting. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. Charles Phair's book is still considered to be one of the best of its kind. Heir to a Maine starch fortune, Phair devoted his adult life to salmon fishing throughout the world, and eventually distilled his insights into this text. Topics include the selection of guides, tackle, flies and their uses, casting, fishing the wet fly, fishing the dry fly, weather, spawning, and fascinating descriptions of the great salmon rivers of North America. The book includes paintings by Ogden Pleissner, etchings by Robert Nisbet, and dozens of photographs and maps. Pleissner, Ogden M. And Robert Nisbet (illustrator). Folio - size over 12" - 15" tall. A classic looking book with blue leather covers and gold decorations (including a salmon) on front and spine. Five full-page, full color illustrations, as well as numerous black-and-white photographs, read more

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