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Cows in Trees
A warm and witty memoir of a vet’s life NEW Julian Earl Hardback • 152 pages £12.95 SIGNED COPIES ‘It shouldn’t happen to a vet. Whether it’s freeing cows stuck up trees or hurdling snarling dogs, in his new book Julian Earl reveals the trials and tribulations of working with animals.’ Daily Express
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‘Cows in Trees is beautifully written, capturing many hilarious moments of Julian’s career throughout, and a few very sad ones as well. This hardback book will appeal to pet owners and non-pet owners alike, and is certainly one of our favourite books of 2016 so far.’ Pet Owners Association
Cat Tales Raise Your Game: Tour de France – What is a piano?
Endearing, eccentric and extraordinary true stories Tom Quinn Hardback • 208 pages • £14.95
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SIGNED COPIES SIGNED COPIES SIGNED COPIES From cats that loved birds to cats that danced, sang and even saved their owner’s lives, this unique collection of feline stories brings together some of the strangest and most endearing tales from the past two centuries. Beautifully illustrated by Nicola L Robinson, who also illustrated our companion volume Barking Mad – a must for anyone who has the purr...fect pet
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Barking Mad
Two centuries of great dog stories Tom Quinn Hardback • 208 pages • £14.95 ‘I can’t think of a better Christmas present for a dog-loving bookworm.’ BASC
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Perfect Gifts Raise Your Game
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How to speak fluent sport Ian Valentine with cartoons by Oliver Preston Hardback • 208 pages • £20.00
Sport can be downright odd! Think of a tennis court and its scoring system. Or the organised chaos of a rugby scrum. Or just about everything to do with cricket. That’s why sports writer Ian Valentine and celebrated cartoonist Oliver Preston have teamed up to produce this wonderful accompaniment to all things sport.
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Talk a good game Summer Olympics
Raise Your Game
Perfect gift for sportsmad boys and adults alike
Catch a crab: To make a faulty stroke, and send yourself and the shell (boat) off balance. The loss of time and rhythm can prove costly.
Coxswain (cox): The mouthy little fella or lass in the shell who faces in the direction of travel and barks orders at the giants pulling on oars. Coxes steer too, and often get thrown in the drink if the team wins. Derives from cockboat (a small boat on a ship, like a lifeboat) and swain (a servant), although there’s only one person in charge nowadays.
‘He’s put on a bit of weight since he rowed in the Olympics.’
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This quirky guide will teach you how to learn the lingo and speak fluent sport. Amaze friends as you learn your snatch from your jerk, your tika-taka from your kizzle kazzle and your dink from your bonk!
‘This book provides some novel excuses and tongue-in-cheek advice for pickers-up, Guns and keepers alike for when things don’t quite go as planned. Brought to life by Oliver Preston’s illustrations, there are, among its pages, some real pearls of wisdom.’ Fieldsports ‘Here you will find tales of embarrassing gundogs, war cries in the beating line, lunch-stealing Labradors and wonderfully incompetent shots, not to mention outrageous shooting clothing and mad ducks. Hilariously illustrated by Oliver Preston this is clearly one for the Christmas stocking.’ CLA
Test your knowledge on every page of this catalogue with question on the left and answer on the right
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The Imperfect Shot
Shooting excuses, gaffes and blunders J C Jeremy Hobson with illustrations by Oliver Preston Hardback • 152 pages • £20.00
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Raise Your Game: Tour de France – To ride at a quiet pace and conserve energy.
IF THERE WAS A PRIZE FOR ‘MOST-POOPED-LOOKING’ at the Olympic Games, then the rowers would be up against the decathletes and triathletes for gold medal. The medal-winning boats can usually force a smile or wave at the crowds once they cross the finishing line. But for the losers, the expression of physical exhaustion and abject misery that all their training over the last four years has brought them nothing more than a pat on the back, is written large. The best teams will do the same stroke, over and over, harder and harder, in better synch than the others. There are two types: sweep (with one oar) and sculling (with two), split into lightweight (less than 72.5kg for men and 59kg for women) and heavyweight categories. The sweepers compete in pairs, fours and eights, while the scullers are individual, in doubles or quads. Some have coxes, some don’t, but the goal is the same: get to the finishing line first and don’t die wondering. Boats tend to start fast, setting a quick, rhythmic stroke (about 40 per minute), then try to find enough in the tank to sprint for home. There is mental racing pressure from watching your opponents take a lead or fall behind. Do you trust your strategy or hit the panic button?
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On the Trail
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Stalking Fallow NEW
John Thornley Hardback • 248 pages • £25.00
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Deer Management in the UK Dominic Griffith HB • 216 pp • £25.00
‘In this extensive guide to the challenges of stalking and managing fallow deer, author John Thornley, chairman of Deer Management Qualifications and trustee of the Deer Initiative, provides a valuable insight into how to stalk woodland and open ground and gives practical advice on issues that include population management, dealing with crop damage and arranging team culls.’ Shooting Times
Deer: Artists’ Impressions
Raise Your Game: Football – What is a seal dribble?
HB • 152 pp • £35.00
‘This magnificent volume brings together the work of eight of our foremost wildlife artists... Some coffee table books lie untouched, this is one that you will constantly pick up.’ BASC
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Shooting Types The Second Barrel
Giles Catchpole & Bryn Parry HB • 114 pp • £19.95 ‘A brilliant book observing the eccentricities of sportsmen, dogs, beaters, hosts and supporting characters.’ Gun Trade News
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How to be Asked Again
How to be the perfect shooting guest Rosie Nickerson HB • 160 pp • £20.00 ‘Informative but entertaining, dotted with anecdotes. A perfect Christmas present.’ Fieldsports
101 Shooting Excuses
Bryn Parry HB • 100 pp • £9.99
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Open Season
Between the Coverts The shooter’s bedside book Charles Smith-Jones Hardback • 224 pages • £20.00
‘For those that have a passion for field sports, the book is a goldmine of information and one to dip into at any time. The book is comprehensive, ranging from deer stalking to shooting rabbits and wood pigeons. It should definitely be on the bookshelves of sportsmen, and it would make an ideal present for a shooting companion.’ Highland News Group
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The Deer Stalker’s Bedside Book Charles Smith-Jones HB • 224 pp • £20.00
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Game & Fish Record Book
HB • 240 pp • £30.00
Raise Your Game: Football – To head the ball forward yourself.
Buy both Between the Coverts and The Deer Stalker’s Bedside Book for £30.00 ‘With 240 pages this should last a season or two. A lovely gift.’ Fly Fishing and Fly Tying
A Year on the Moor Tarquin Millington-Drake HB • 160 pp • £35.00
Dog Training with Mr Perks
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‘With more than 200 incredible images – it really is a celebration of all that we who shoot, beat, pick-up and load love about our uplands.’ Fieldsports
Bryn Parry HB • 114 pp • £14.99 Anyone who has ever been humiliated by man’s most disobedient friend will love this book.
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In the Kitchen
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Smoking Food at Home with Smoky Jo Jo Hampson with Georgina Perkins Paperback • 176 pages • £12.99
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‘The second edition of this popular guide remains essential reading for anybody wishing to smoke food, whether they be a professional chef or just an enthusiastic cook at home. Complete beginners will find all they need to know presented in a simple step-by-step format, whilst even experienced smokers will find some useful information and tips. You only need to buy one guide to smoking your own food and this is it.’ CookEquip
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In Praise of Bees Elizabeth Birchall HB • 256 pp • £30.00
‘Probably the best and definitely the most beautiful book about bees.’ Daily Info, Oxford
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Raise Your Game: Rugby Union – Against the head?
The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook
Dry Aging Meat at Home
Complete guide to drying food Tammy Gangloff PB • 320 pp • £16.95
A complete guide for dry aging beef, duck, game and other meats Warren R Anderson PB • 128 pp • £12.95
The cook’s guide to game preparation – field to table Mike Robinson Spiral HB • 128 pp • £16.95
Rich, Rare & Red
Inverawe Seasons Cookbook
Game & Fish Cookbook
From the Inverawe Smoke House – a beautifully illustrated and delightful smoked food recipe book.
‘Terrific recipes for game lovers and the wildlife photography makes it a real treat.’ Daily Telegraph
A guide to port Ben Howkins PB • 224 pp • £16.95
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Rosie Campbell-Preston HB • 128 pp • £14.99
Fit for Table
HB • 288 pp • £25.00
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Shooting Classics Gamekeeping
An illustrated history David S D Jones Hardback • 240 pp • £25.00
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Game Shooting
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An illustrated history David S D Jones Hardback • 264 pp • £25.00
SIGNED COPIES ‘Jones’s comprehensive volume is enlightening, from the modern requirements for the job and the dedication it entails, to a look at the often gritty history of the gamekeeper. Chapters on lady gamekeepers, those during wartime and from the great estates all demonstrate the gamekeeper’s worth... A valuable addition to the sporting world’s memory.’ The Field
‘Using snippets from diaries, game books and personal testimonies from sportsmen and gamekeepers, sporting historian David S D Jones provides an accurate and absorbing overview of game shooting both in the UK and overseas, since its inception in the 16th century to the present day.’ Fieldsports
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The Shoot Lunch J C Jeremy Hobson HB • 176 pp • £20.00
J C Jeremy Hobson & David S D Jones HB • 224 pp • £25.00
Sporting Lodges
Going to the Hill
The traditions, the camaraderie and the craic of the shooting lunch – ideal for a shooting friend
‘An extensive and fascinating history of the quintessential British sporting lodge.’ Fieldsports
Iconic black and white photographs capture sporting estate life.
Glyn Satterley PB • 144 pp • £16.99
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Raise Your Game: Rugby Union – When a pack wins a scrum off the opposition put-in. Big bragging points.
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Success with Chickens
The ‘what, where and why’ of trouble-free chicken keeping J C Jeremy Hobson PB • 176 pp • £14.99 now £6.00
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Raise Your Game: Cricket – What is a king pair?
The Gardener’s Essential Gertrude Jekyll
HB • 284 pp • £16.95 now £8.99
Higgledy Piggledy
The ultimate pig miscellany Richard Lutwyche HB • 128 pp • £14.99 now £4.99
An Evening with Johnners
Centenary Edition Brian Johnston HB • 184 pp • £16.99 now £5.00 ‘Every page is filled with hilarious memories, comical stories and anecdotes. ‘ Lincolnshire Life
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Peter Holt’s Keen Miscellany Series The Keen Foxhunter’s Miscellany The Keen Shot’s Miscellany The Keen Countryman’s Miscellany HB • 224 and 208 pp respectively • £16.95 each now £10.00 each or all three for £25.00
The Field Book of Country Queries
HB • 224 pp • £20.00 now £10.00
Farm Fatale
Paul Heiney HB • 194 pp • £12.99 now £5.99
Game Season
John Humphreys with recipes by Angela Humphreys and paintings by Rodger McPhail HB • 192 pp • £30.00 now £20.00 Limited stock ‘Elegantly produced compendium of sporting memories... It is truly a treasure.’ Shooting Times
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Wild Boar
A British perspective Steve Sweeting HB • 148 pp • £19.95 now £14.95 Wild boar expert and big game hunter Steve Sweeting’s new book Wild Boar is an in depth and stunningly detailed look at all facets of the wild boar.
David Barrington Barnes HB • 200 pp • £19.95 now £14.95
A celebration of the author’s life and times as a shooting man – an enthusiastic rough and game shooter, and amateur gamekeeper.
A Foxing Life
with gun and rifle Mike Powell HB • 164 pp • £19.95 now £14.95
Roe Stalking with the Experts
The British Deer Stalking Bible
Peter Carr HB • 184 pp • £19.95 now £14.95
Offers the stalker an in-depth insight into the deer’s habits, and how to successfully and ethically stalk this wonderful sporting species.
Peter Carr HB • 200 pp • £19.95 now £14.95
This revised second edition has been extended and modernised with updated photography, recently released stalking equipment and an additional hunting story.
Sport in Wildest Britain A modern perspective Hesketh Pritchard & Peter Carr HB • 360 pp • £29.95 now £22.95
Still deemed one of the best books on sport ever written by a British sportsman, Hesketh Pritchard a remarkable Edwardian sportsman – whose descriptive skill with the pen has never been eclipsed.
Game Bird Diseases A gamekeeper’s guide Alan Pearson BVM&S MRCVS HB • 184 pp • £14.95 now £9.95
Sporting Rifles
A guide to modern firearms Peter Carr HB • 186 pp • £24.95 now £18.95
Foxing with the Experts Peter Carr HB • 212 pp • £24.95 now £18.95
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Raise Your Game: Cricket – To get a golden duck in both innings.
In the Shooting Field
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In the Bag
01939 261616 � The Pigeon Shooter’s Diary
Tom Payne Hardback • 216 pages • £20.00
Woodcock Fieldcraft and Quarry Professor Colin Trotman HB • 176 pp • £25.00
BASC Handbooks Wildfowling HB • 106 pp • £16.95
On Your Shoot
A practical guide to running your own shoot by Liam Bell HB • 160 pp • £20.00
The definitive manual on pigeon shooting from the highly experienced pigeon Shot and Shooting Times contributor Tom Payne. The Pigeon Shooter’s Diary commences with descriptions of the quarry species, equipment and accessories followed by an in-depth guide to fieldcraft, reconnaissance and shooting instruction. The Diary runs through the calendar year detailing the different techniques and skills needed for the changing conditions, all topped off with memories of special days in the field. SIGNED COPIES
Pheasant Shooting David Hudson HB • 186 pp • £19.95
NEW Raise Your Game: Golf – What is a Tony Blair?
Rearing Game Birds and Gamekeeping
Think like a Pheasant
The Great Shoots
The World’s Greatest Shooting Stories
Beth Williams HB • 224 pp • £25.00
Britain’s best – past and present Brian P Martin HB • 286 pp • £25.00
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Brian Mitchell with Stephen Manning HB • 224 pp • £25.00
Tom Quinn HB • 144 pp • £19.95
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The Gun Room In Pursuit of the Best Gun
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Westley Richards & Co 1812 - 2012, 2nd Edition Hardback • 368 pages • £75.00
BASC Law and Licensing
A concise guide for shotgun and rifle owners Bill Harriman Paperback • 96 pages • £14.95 ‘Essential reference for any Gun. BASC’s legal adviser and Shooting Times firearms expert Bill Harriman provides a definitive guide to firearms legislation, and gives practical guidance and invaluable insight into the law surrounding the use and ownership of firearms and shotguns.’ Shooting Times
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‘Larger, more lavish format and with additional photographs, the revised edition is arguably the best of its type on individual gunmakers.’ Game & Gun Gazette
James Purdey & Sons
Gun and rifle makers Donald Dallas HB • 472 pp • £75.00 ‘This book would make a wonderful Christmas present for any Purdey owner or anyone who loves fine English guns.’ Shooting Times
Written by Jeremy Musson with specially commissioned photography by Terry Allen, this lavishly illustrated book contains over 400 stunning colour images and previously unseen archive material and is essential reading for every gun and shooting enthusiast. ‘It is simply the finest firearms related book I have ever seen!’ Double Gun Journal
The Best of British A celebration of British gunmaking David Grant and Vic Venters HB • 216 pp • £35.00
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Raise Your Game: Golf – Promised plenty, but too much spin.
In association with Westley Richards Quiller Publishing is proud to offer this second edition of In Pursuit of the Best Gun
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In the Dog House
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Psycho Dog
All your dog problems answered in one easy-to-follow guide Janet Menzies Paperback • 220 pages • £12.95
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From Puppy to Perfect
If your dog seems like a mission impossible, relax! This one-stop guide to understanding and curing your dog problems is here to help you on the way to owning a happy, loving dog that you will be pleased to see every morning. This latest book draws on a lifetime’s experience of solving dog difficulties – most of which Janet Menzies admits to have experienced personally at one time or another!
A proven, practical guide to training and caring for your new puppy Janet Menzies PB • 224 pp • £12.95 Answers all your questions about what it takes to own and train your first family puppy, as well as the importance of puppy downtime and puppy proofing your home. Landlove Magazine
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Raise Your Game: Equestrian – What is a serpentine?
Training the Working Spaniel Janet Menzies HB • 224 pp • £19.95
Training the Working Labrador Jeremy Hunt HB • 216 pp • £19.95
The Patterdale Terrier
Séan Frain PB • 214 pp • £14.95
Dog training titles galore online
Total Recall
Pippa Mattinson PB • 248 pp • £16.95
All you need to know about the recall, from how and when to effectively reward your dog.
The Total Dog Manual
Meet, train and care for your new best friend David Meyer, Abbie Moore and Dr Pia Salk Paperback • 260 pages • £18.95
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‘A lovely laid out book, carefully illustrated with numbered tips for you to refer to. The manual is an ultimate book for dog lovers. It would make an excellent and invaluable read for the first time dog owner whether that being taking on a puppy or an older rescue dog.’ Haynet
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In the Stable
Master Dressage
Ride more beautiful tests, achieve higher marks, and have a better relationship with your horse Peter Dove Paperback • 192 pages • £14.95
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Unrelenting
The real story: horses, bright lights, and my pursuit of excellence George H Morris Hardback • 560 pages • £29.95
The Essential Fergus The life and times of the world’s most popular cartoon equine Jean Abernethy Paperback • 136 pages • £14.95
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The engrossing autobiography of George H Morris – horse lover, rider, carouser, competitor, taskmaster and teacher. His approval can be a rainmaker; his derision can end a career
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My Racing Certainties Bobby McAlpine HB • 162 pp • £18.00
‘The anecdotes alone make this book worth reading even if you’re not a racing fan, but it also gives you a short history of the Jockey Club, a picture of the social life of the very wealthy, and insight into all aspects of racing.’ Horse and Countryside
World-Class Grooming
The English rider’s complete guide to daily care and competition Cat Hill and Emma Ford Spiral HB • 248 pp • £29.95
My Special Pony Record Book
Spiral HB • 96 pp • £9.95
‘Filled with advice well rooted in personal experience and tried and true methods... This is one of the best instructional manuals I have ever read.’ Eventing Nation
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Raise Your Game: Equestrian – When the horse performs half circles followed by straight lines.
‘A fabulous, clearly explained, easy-to-follow book, with colour pictures and diagrams, which provides the reader with valuable information, tips and advice, without complicated jargon. This book should be on every riders and coaches book shelf.’ Haynet
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On the Bank
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1001 Fly Fishing Tips
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Fleye Design
Tying Nymphs
Expert advice, hints and shortcuts from the world’s leading fly fishers Jay Nichols PB • 224 pp • £14.95
Techniques, insights, patterns Bob Popovics and Jay Nichols HB • 270 pp • £29.95
Essential flies and techniques for the top patterns Charlie Craven HB • 192 pp • £22.95
Grab your gear and take a fishing trip across the country with over 25 of the world’s fly-fishing experts. With over 1001 of the best tips and tricks compiled by the former managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine, this clear and easy-to-use book covers all the essentials from trout to tarpon.
New fly patterns and old favourites improved upon by innovative fly tier, Bob Popovics. Beautifully illustrated throughout with over 600 colour photographs.
‘Forget everything you thought you knew about tying nymphs, Charlie Craven always seems to find more efficient ways to produce sexier flies.’ Fly Fisherman Magazine
‘The most innovative fly tier I have ever known.’ Lefty Kreh
Raise Your Game: Snowboarding – What is a grommet?
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Single-Handed Spey Casting
Classic Salmon Fly Patterns
The Trout Fishers Handbook
Simon Gawesworth HB • 256 pp • £25.00
Michael D Radencich HB/DVD • 352 pp • £50.00
Lesley Crawford HB • 184 pp • £16.95 now £8.00
A superb book with solutions to casts, obstructions, tight spots and other casting challenges.
The bible of salmon fly patterns. No work has ever compiled so many classic salmon fly patterns.
Lesley Crawford’s book covers all the essential subject areas for aspiring trout fishermen.
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