ADVANCED FLY FISHING Eugene Burns HC PHOTOS Childress DRAWINGS Bradway 1953

Description: ADVANCED FLY FISHING Modern Concepts With Dry Fly, Streamer, Nymph, Wet Fly, And the Spinning Bubble by EUGENE BURNS Photographs by Clyde Childress Drawings by Firman Bradway Frontispiece Fred Everett ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Hardcover no dust jacket; 268 pages; Size Approx. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4. Published by The Stackpole Company; copyright 1953. Details: "It's high time that someone who could fish and write came along and evaluated inherited customs of fly fishing in the light of modern knowledge and equipment and on the basis of this, wrote a book on the sport which would take what was good, toss into the discards what was poor, and then go on to establish a brand new concept of fly fishing. And this, I believe, exactly this is what Eugene Burns has done in Advanced Fly Fishing. Having fished with Gene Burns and better yet shared with him evening campfires and the conversation that goes with it, I am not at all surprised at the book's excellence. Gene Burns has the happy faculty of taking the reader with him when he wades a stream. You will be with him when he finagles a big brown with a No. 16 caddis of his own design on the Yellowstone. You will be looking over his shoulder as he outlines the exact limits of a 'hot spot in big water.' He will tell you of new approaches to take trophy fish from waters you thought were fished out. Fair warning though. When you go fishing with Gene Burns through the pages of Advanced Fly Fishing there will be times when he will deliberately get you in over your waders; sometimes, maybe, even over your head. But when you come up at the tail of a chapter your head will be surprisingly free from the traditional 'claptrap' about angling. Instead it will be filled with good solid fish-taking techniques." (Francis E. Sell from the Foreword) The book has a dark green cloth binding with a paste-down picture on the front cover; gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; nicely illustrated in black and white; frontispiece is an oil painting of a rainbow trout by Fred Everett in color. A fine addition for your bookshelf! Condition: Showing light wear; inscription written in the front; damp stain on the frontispiece (see picture); several bent corner tips; foxing on the text block; otherwise the book is in good condition with a firm binding and clean pages.* * * * * * * * Note: The letter/number at the end of the title line for this listing is just an inventory code for locating the book. ______________________________________ Free Domestic Economy Shipping! Please contact me with any questions. Thanks for looking!

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