The Floating Line for Salmon and Sea-Trout

by Anthony Crossley

From the Preface: "Fishing for Salmon with a floating line and a small fly has now been practised for a number of years in nearly every salmon river in the British Isles and in very many rivers abroad. This method is generally recognized to have been first tried by Mr. A.H.Wood of Cairnton and Glassel in Aberdeen. I have used the word 'practised' because Major J. W. Hills, one of Mr. Wood's greatest friends, has often told me that he would have revolted at the use of the word 'perfected'. The more Arthur Wood knew, the more he realized how much there was to learn about the ways of salmon and how to lure them to his fly... I would suggest that he raised salmon fishing to a sport equally charming and equally skillful as is dry fly fishing for trout; that in our own time he did for salmon fishing what Halford in the last century did for trout fishing."

177 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 2009