swan hill press wykey shrewsbury 2006 (14 résultats)

(Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 4to (195 x 253mm). Pp200. Colour photographs throughout. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults. Good-plus. A good introduction to fishing for wild trout, including sea trout, in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Lesley Crawford explains "in detail how differing local trout tactics have evolved and just why these .remain so successful. Compares and explains the many subtle differences in flies, tactics and techniques used across the British Isles". In particular, Crawford discusses specialist local methods such as English chalkstream fishing, night fishing for sewin and dapping on Irish loughs. .

(Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 4to (195 x 253mm). Pp200. Colour photographs throughout. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good second-hand copy. A good introduction to fishing for wild trout, including sea trout, in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Lesley Crawford explains "in detail how differing local trout tactics have evolved and just why these .remain so successful. Compares and explains the many subtle differences in flies, tactics and techniques used across the British Isles." In particular, Crawford discusses specialist local methods such as English chalkstream fishing, night fishing for sewin and dapping on Irish loughs. .

(Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 4to (197 x 254mm). Pp208. Colour photographs throughout, maps, bibliography. Purple boards, spine titled in gilt. Spine / corners slightly bumped/ slight cockling else fine unread copy in scuffed dust-wrapper. This book is written for all those who wish to enjoy fishing in one of Europe's last great wildernesses. A fascinating and useful guide for all angling visitors written with Bill Rawlings' intimate knowledge and experience of the area. Chapters include: Today's decline; The call of the wild; The South-West; Inner Hebrides; Outer Hebrides; The North-West; The North Coast; The East Coast; The basics of loch fishing; Catching fish; Restoration; Envoi. Appendices include: Recommended reading; References; Salmon, sea trout and salmon farms - the facts. .

(Paperback, 2006). (1996) 2002 reprint. 8vo paperback (150 x 219mm). Ppviii,118 + 1pp ads. B/w photographs and illustrations. Slightly spine-faded and used else very good, clean second-hand paperback. "This book explains how to train and use a ferret to chase rabbits from their buries. There are then a variety of options to eliminate the emerging prey, such as netting or shooting. Every aspect of working the ferret is included, from the choice of animal and the equipment needed to discerning the layout of buries and working the ferret with dogs." Chapters include: Introduction to ferreting; Choosing your ferrets; Ferreting equipment; Gaining permission - and keeping it!; Entering your ferrets to quarry; The lie of the land; The group experience; Shooting over ferrets; Ferrets and lurchers; The catch; Health. .

(Hardcover, 2006 ). 2006 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp164. B/w photographs & illustrations. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use. Very good in slightly rubbed and faded dust-wrapper. Sound and systematic advice on hunting with lurchers with many anecdotes ofthe author's varied experiences. A graceful stablemate for more blood-spattered works such as Darcy's Extreme Lurcherwork and Running Dog Addiction. "A passion for working lurchers has been the driving force behind this book. With many of their traditional skills now difficult to uphold within the law, there is the risk of losing honest experience of what lies at the heart of this tremendously versatile working dog. The author writes from the perspective of one who really has seen it and done it in all its glorious diversity, and has clearly loved every minute. fascinating details and tales taken from Jackie Drakeford's own days and nights of hunting with lurchers from the south coast to the northernmost tip of Scotland. this book allows us to look over the author's shoulder and watch lurchers prowling around buries, working through thickets or stretched out at full pelt across open landscape" Chapters include: Firm foundations - basic standards and experience; The rabbiter's dog - ferrets, nets, lamps and hedgerows; The foxing lurcher - by day and night; The hare-coursing lurcher - competitive and pot-filling; The King's deer - history of the venison provider; Miscellaneous fur and feather - small vermin and gamebirds; Running dogs of Australia and America - kangaroos and coyotes. .

(Hardcover, 2006 ). 2006 1st edition. 4to (200 x 252mm). Pp210. Colour photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "A wide-ranging and practical guide to the work of the gamekeeper. Habitat management, game production, predator and shoot management, as well as exploring the history of gamekeeping and the ways in which the profession has changed over the years. Advice for anyone seeking to enter the profession and a frank and sometimes outspoken look at the law relating to keepering." .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). (1997) 2006 2nd edition. 4to (195 x 265mm). Pp231. Colour illustrations by John Searl, colour photographs. Laminated boards. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to pike fishing in Britain. This is the 2006 second edition which has been revised and expanded with new chapters. It is now out-of-print. "Few pike anglers can claim to be equally at home when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs. Many can boast a mastery of one type of water, but only someone who has fished as widely and exhaustively as Paul Gustafson can have gained the ability to catch specimen fish consistently from all four. With unique rigs of his own devising, items of tackle of his own invention and scientific discoveries about what pike see and how they can detect their prey without using their eyesight, the author has broken down the barriers of man's knowledge of the species and opened the door to new techniques. A pioneer of night fishing for pike, with remarkable success, he is a firm believer that barometric pressure and light levels play an important part in determining their movements, even to the point whereby success and failure on a given water can be predicted by studying the weather. Paul shows us how to choose and use the most effective tackle to catch this beautiful predator and as an experienced naturalist he gives us a fascinating insight into how a pike lives, moves and seizes its prey. This new edition includes chapters on fly-fishing for pike, fishing in Sweden and popular lures. Gord Burton has contributed a chapter on the lure of big pike. By reading this book, anyone can develop a technique that will enable them to catch bigger pike when fishing in any location. It is an inspirational guide to the species that will have everyone going back to their sport with renewed enthusiasm and considerably more potential for success." Chapters include: First steps - a pike fishing apprenticeship; Rods, reels and line; Terminal tackle; Tools and accessories; Pike - a fragile quarry; Bait; Gravel pits and lakes; Rivers; Rigs; Night fishing and the neuromast system; The travelling angler; Boats; Lochs and loughs; Angling, ethics and the future; The lure of the big pike by Gord Burton; Fly-fishing for pike by Mick Willis and Bob Church; Sweden. The foreword is by Fred Buller. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 4to (196 x 252mm). Ppxviii,172. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Top edge slightly spotted else a very good first edition in a slightly tanned dust-wrapper. This book "covers all aspects of training [with] advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. [A] wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs .of benefit both to the new trainer and to those who are more experienced." Chapters include: The MacSiccar Training Plan; Absconding, learning by association, amateur trainers; Behavioural boundaries, boundaries vs hunting; Car sickness, case hardening, creative imagination, crowd shyness; Dangerous venues; Ears, eye colour - hard; Field trials, first season's experience; Game, game sense, genetic insight, gun shy; Habits, hand training; Inheritance, indiscriminate breeding; Judges and judging; Kennels; Line breeding, lineage, lining ground scent; Mistakes; Neurotic aversion to scent; Out-cross breeding; Prankish gun, predators, preparation for a field trial, professional trainers, professionalism; Quartering; Rabbit pen construction, retrieves; Scent, sheep dogging, dropping to shot, substitute judges; Taking signalled directions at distance, trust your dog; Unmarked retrieves, unseen multiple dummies; Videos, voice; Water - introduction to, retrieving from, whistles, wind; Yapping, yipping, giving tongue. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006 ). 2006 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp216. B/w vignette illustrations. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. "Written for any deer enthusiast to dip into and it contains bits and pieces of roe lore which have tickled the author's curiosity or puzzled him over the years. .A blend of reminiscence and advice from the author's lifetime's interest and enthusiasm". Chapters include: What makes them tick? - what are they thinking, antlers why all the fuss?, watching them watching us, malformed antlers and fly-strike, colour variations, typical questions, inter-species relations; Aspects of stalking - motives and mistakes, stalkers' birds, a long shot for a big buck, roe bashing, new ground, the rut and calling, dogs good and bad, typical questions; Rifles and other equipment - rifles and questions about them, arrogance and the rifle shooter, scopes, gadgets good bad and horrible, shooting off a stick, high seats, typical questions; Management - stalker or manager?, pressures on deer, typical questions, damage, your deer my roses, typical questions on damage, health and safety, hashes and haunches, stalking diaries the Benin factor; Alarms and excursions - wild goat chase, adventures and misadventures in the Alps, moose hunt, Chinese roe on migration, wild boar and mixed drinks; Looking back - the origins of South-Country roe, roe stalking in the 1930's, a plague of monsters, winter browsing, the making of a stalker, last word - Numbles. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006 ). 2006 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp216. B/w vignette illustrations. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt. Near fine in dust-wrapper. "Written for any deer enthusiast to dip into and it contains bits and pieces of roe lore which have tickled the author's curiosity or puzzled him over the years. .A blend of reminiscence and advice from the author's lifetime's interest and enthusiasm". Chapters include: What makes them tick? - what are they thinking, antlers why all the fuss?, watching them watching us, malformed antlers and fly-strike, colour variations, typical questions, inter-species relations; Aspects of stalking - motives and mistakes, stalkers' birds, a long shot for a big buck, roe bashing, new ground, the rut and calling, dogs good and bad, typical questions; Rifles and other equipment - rifles and questions about them, arrogance and the rifle shooter, scopes, gadgets good bad and horrible, shooting off a stick, high seats, typical questions; Management - stalker or manager?, pressures on deer, typical questions, damage, your deer my roses, typical questions on damage, health and safety, hashes and haunches, stalking diaries the Benin factor; Alarms and excursions - wild goat chase, adventures and misadventures in the Alps, moose hunt, Chinese roe on migration, wild boar and mixed drinks; Looking back - the origins of South-Country roe, roe stalking in the 1930's, a plague of monsters, winter browsing, the making of a stalker, last word - Numbles. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). 2006 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp216. B/w vignette illustrations. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt. Dedication from the author to half-title page "Vic Pardy - You know more about this than I do. Richard Prior." Near fine in dust-wrapper. "Written for any deer enthusiast to dip into and it contains bits and pieces of roe lore which have tickled the author's curiosity or puzzled him over the years. .A blend of reminiscence and advice from the author's lifetime's interest and enthusiasm". Chapters include: What makes them tick? - what are they thinking, antlers why all the fuss?, watching them watching us, malformed antlers and fly-strike, colour variations, typical questions, inter-species relations; Aspects of stalking - motives and mistakes, stalkers' birds, a long shot for a big buck, roe bashing, new ground, the rut and calling, dogs good and bad, typical questions; Rifles and other equipment - rifles and questions about them, arrogance and the rifle shooter, scopes, gadgets good bad and horrible, shooting off a stick, high seats, typical questions; Management - stalker or manager?, pressures on deer, typical questions, damage, your deer my roses, typical questions on damage, health and safety, hashes and haunches, stalking diaries the Benin factor; Alarms and excursions - wild goat chase, adventures and misadventures in the Alps, moose hunt, Chinese roe on migration, wild boar and mixed drinks; Looking back - the origins of South-Country roe, roe stalking in the 1930s, a plague of monsters, winter browsing, the making of a stalker, last word - Numbles. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). (1997) 2006 2nd edition. 4to (195 x 265mm). Pp231. Colour illustrations by John Searl, colour photographs. Fully bound in dark green leather, silk marker ribbon, gilt pike motif to upper board, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Leather-bound edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine leatherbound copy. Un-numbered out-of-series publisher's file copy, signed by the author, but not numbered. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to pike fishing in Britain. This is the 2006 second edition which has been revised and expanded with new chapters. It is now out-of-print. "Few pike anglers can claim to be equally at home when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs. Many can boast a mastery of one type of water, but only someone who has fished as widely and exhaustively as Paul Gustafson can have gained the ability to catch specimen fish consistently from all four. With unique rigs of his own devising, items of tackle of his own invention and scientific discoveries about what pike see and how they can detect their prey without using their eyesight, the author has broken down the barriers of man's knowledge of the species and opened the door to new techniques. A pioneer of night fishing for pike, with remarkable success, he is a firm believer that barometric pressure and light levels play an important part in determining their movements, even to the point whereby success and failure on a given water can be predicted by studying the weather. Paul shows us how to choose and use the most effective tackle to catch this beautiful predator and as an experienced naturalist he gives us a fascinating insight into how a pike lives, moves and seizes its prey. This new edition includes chapters on fly-fishing for pike, fishing in Sweden and popular lures. Gord Burton has contributed a chapter on the lure of big pike. By reading this book, anyone can develop a technique that will enable them to catch bigger pike when fishing in any location. It is an inspirational guide to the species that will have everyone going back to their sport with renewed enthusiasm and considerably more potential for success." Chapters include: First steps - a pike fishing apprenticeship; Rods, reels and line; Terminal tackle; Tools and accessories; Pike - a fragile quarry; Bait; Gravel pits and lakes; Rivers; Rigs; Night fishing and the neuromast system; The travelling angler; Boats; Lochs and loughs; Angling, ethics and the future; The lure of the big pike by Gord Burton; Fly-fishing for pike by Mick Willis and Bob Church; Sweden. The foreword is by Fred Buller. This is a copy of the leather-bound edition that was limited to 150 copies. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). (1997) 2006 2nd edition. 4to (195 x 265mm). Pp231. Colour illustrations by John Searl, colour photographs. Fully bound in dark green leather, silk marker ribbon, gilt pike motif to upper board, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Leather-bound edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine leatherbound copy. Signed and numbered by the author. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to pike fishing in Britain. This is the 2006 second edition which has been revised and expanded with new chapters. It is now out-of-print. "Few pike anglers can claim to be equally at home when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs. Many can boast a mastery of one type of water, but only someone who has fished as widely and exhaustively as Paul Gustafson can have gained the ability to catch specimen fish consistently from all four. With unique rigs of his own devising, items of tackle of his own invention and scientific discoveries about what pike see and how they can detect their prey without using their eyesight, the author has broken down the barriers of man's knowledge of the species and opened the door to new techniques. A pioneer of night fishing for pike, with remarkable success, he is a firm believer that barometric pressure and light levels play an important part in determining their movements, even to the point whereby success and failure on a given water can be predicted by studying the weather. Paul shows us how to choose and use the most effective tackle to catch this beautiful predator and as an experienced naturalist he gives us a fascinating insight into how a pike lives, moves and seizes its prey. This new edition includes chapters on fly-fishing for pike, fishing in Sweden and popular lures. Gord Burton has contributed a chapter on the lure of big pike. By reading this book, anyone can develop a technique that will enable them to catch bigger pike when fishing in any location. It is an inspirational guide to the species that will have everyone going back to their sport with renewed enthusiasm and considerably more potential for success." Chapters include: First steps - a pike fishing apprenticeship; Rods, reels and line; Terminal tackle; Tools and accessories; Pike - a fragile quarry; Bait; Gravel pits and lakes; Rivers; Rigs; Night fishing and the neuromast system; The travelling angler; Boats; Lochs and loughs; Angling, ethics and the future; The lure of the big pike by Gord Burton; Fly-fishing for pike by Mick Willis and Bob Church; Sweden. The foreword is by Fred Buller. This is a copy of the leather-bound edition that was limited to 150 copies. .

Etat : new. (Hardcover, 2006). (1997) 2006 2nd edition. 4to (195 x 265mm). Pp231. Colour illustrations by John Searl, colour photographs. Fully bound in dark green leather, silk marker ribbon, gilt pike motif to upper board, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Leather-bound edition limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine leather-bound copy. Signed and numbered by the author. Hand-written letter from the author to a previous owner laid in. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to pike fishing in Britain. This is the 2006 second edition which has been revised and expanded with new chapters. It is now out-of-print. "Few pike anglers can claim to be equally at home when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs. Many can boast a mastery of one type of water, but only someone who has fished as widely and exhaustively as Paul Gustafson can have gained the ability to catch specimen fish consistently from all four. With unique rigs of his own devising, items of tackle of his own invention and scientific discoveries about what pike see and how they can detect their prey without using their eyesight, the author has broken down the barriers of man's knowledge of the species and opened the door to new techniques. A pioneer of night fishing for pike, with remarkable success, he is a firm believer that barometric pressure and light levels play an important part in determining their movements, even to the point whereby success and failure on a given water can be predicted by studying the weather. Paul shows us how to choose and use the most effective tackle to catch this beautiful predator and as an experienced naturalist he gives us a fascinating insight into how a pike lives, moves and seizes its prey. This new edition includes chapters on fly-fishing for pike, fishing in Sweden and popular lures. Gord Burton has contributed a chapter on the lure of big pike. By reading this book, anyone can develop a technique that will enable them to catch bigger pike when fishing in any location. It is an inspirational guide to the species that will have everyone going back to their sport with renewed enthusiasm and considerably more potential for success." Chapters include: First steps - a pike fishing apprenticeship; Rods, reels and line; Terminal tackle; Tools and accessories; Pike - a fragile quarry; Bait; Gravel pits and lakes; Rivers; Rigs; Night fishing and the neuromast system; The travelling angler; Boats; Lochs and loughs; Angling, ethics and the future; The lure of the big pike by Gord Burton; Fly-fishing for pike by Mick Willis and Bob Church; Sweden. The foreword is by Fred Buller. This is a copy of the leather-bound edition that was limited to 150 copies. .