Publisher's Synopsis
John Goddard is internationally recognized as an authority on all aspects of fly-fishing and also as an expert entomologist and photographer. He is the author of ten books on fishing, the first two of which, Trout Fly Recognition and Trout Flies of Stillwater, are now regarded as classics. Furthermore the book he wrote with Brian Clarke, The Trout and the Fly, is considered to be one of the most important to be written in the last 100 years. It is now fifty years since John Goddard first cast a fly on the water and for thirty of those years he has been contributing groundbreaking articles on a wide variety of topics to all the leading angling journals. Now, reflecting on his long career, John Goddard has meticulously complied a volume of the best of these writings, which represents the distillation of his lifetime of achievements in the sport. Reflections of a Game Fisher is compulsive reading and a book to be savoured by anyone with an enthusiasm for angling.
