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Rhead, Louis : Fisherman's Lures and Game-Fish Food; With Colored Pictures from Life of Various Creatures Fish Eat and New Improved Artificial Imitation Floating Nature Lures and Chart-Plans to Show the Haunts Where Fish Feed on Them in Lake and Stream

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with illustrations of fish bait on the front cover. 6" x 8 3/4." 186 pages, complete. Twenty-one plates and illustrations in black and white and color and additional black and white illustrations, complete. Index in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly age-toned. A Fine copy. Louis Rhead (1857-1926) was an English-American author, illustrator, and fisherman. Many of Rhead's books deal with fly fishing and fishing as a whole. Chapters: "The Importance of Minnows and Their Allies for Game-Fish Food," "Characteristic Habits of Various Surface and Bottom Creatures That Game-Fish Eat," "New Bottom-Creeper Baits for Trout Not Heretofore Known," "How Different Foods Affect Game-Fishes," "Bottom Fish Food in Lakes in Relation to Why Trout Don't Take Flies," "Nocturnal Feeding of Game-Fish," "A Descriptive Chart-Plan to Show the Haunts Where Trout Feed in a Running Stream," "A Descriptive Chart-Plan of Lake Where Fish Abide When Feeding," "Game-Fish That Leap Above the Surface on a Restraining Line," "Tribulations of the Live-Batir Anglers," "Description of Some New Ideas for Floating Nature of Lures," "How to Use Nature Lures by a New Advanced Method," "Advice to Anglers on How to Make Their Own Nature Lures," "Notes on the Breeding and Planting of Game-Fish Food by Private and State Hatcheries," and "Why Present-Day Artificials Are Ineffective and Not Popular with Expert Anglers.". Illustr.: Rhead, Louis. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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