Perfect Cast: A Celebration of Fly-fishing - Couverture rigide

I wish I saw more books like The Perfect Cast: A Celebration of Fly-Fishing. The success of any anthology depends on the taste of its editor. These short angling essays and artwork (drawings, paintings, photographs) were gathered by British angling author Tom Quinn, who has taste aplenty. In addition to a few American voices (Babb, Lyons, Schullery and Rosenbauer), this book puts in your hands the sparkling variety, warmth, and good humour of British angling literature... If you don't know British tradition, this is an excellent sampler and a fine fireside book, both for the images and the tales. I know the tradition pretty well, but I found a number of pleasant surprises here. --Gray's Sporting Journal, USA

This coffee-table hardback covers salmon and trout fishing, flies, perfect days, and, of course, the one that got away. --Countryside

This is a real coffee table book - the sort you can pick up and dip into when you have a few spare minutes, or simply gaze at the pictures, and in an instant you are on the river bank. It's an excellently chosen anthology of some of the best writing on fly fishing... The illustrations are superb and if the next best thing to fishing is reading about it, this book will ease the long days until April. --BASC Shooting and Conservation

The Perfect Cast is a unique and carefully researched collection of angling art and literature from the past three centuries. Amongst the contributors are G E M Skues, Izaak Walton and Dame Julia Berners from the UK and Tom Rosenbauer, Ed Engle, Paul Schullery and Nick Lyons from the US. Salmon fishing, trout fishing, flies, perfect days and the ones that got away are all covered in this superb coffee-table book. With its stunning illustrations and informative, sometimes amusing but always beautifully descriptive texts, it is the perfect book for the hugely increasing number of gamefishermen and women. The Perfect Cast contains gems from some of our greatest angling writers and artists and celebrates the magic of fly-fishing across the world.