Jacket has some tears to top.

Eighty-five well-written pieces on almost as many trout fishing topics - great fishing personalities, the restoration of lakes, tackle catalogues, sublunarism and astrology as debatable factors in success, the improvement of casting techniques, the wickedness of willows, taxidermy, trout psychology, fishermen's lib, local and international fishing literature - the list goes on. Written and set mostly in the Lake Taupo area