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An Angler's Autobiography

Book Title : An Angler's Autobiography
Author : Halford, F.M.
Type :Standard edition
Price: £79.00

With a new Preface by F.M.'s great grandson, John Halford.

". . . a fascinating celebration of a lifelong obsession with trout, trout streams and trout-stream insects. An Angler's Autobiography is just that, the story of Halford's love of fishing, from age 6 to 60. The eminent dry-fly practitioner is happy to tell us about his early days paternostering for pike, ledgering for barbel and tightcorking fat lobworms for perch and chub - dastardly Nottingham tactics for coarse fish. He even recalls experimenting with fly-fishing on salt water in the 1860s. But after being smitten by the sight of trout rising to "upright-winged floating duns," Halford's passion turns to chalk-stream fishing. Beyond paying tribute to his friendship with Marryat, Halford barely mentions his own theories and accomplishments. Like all good fishing writers, he knows the joy of a fishing life is in the quirky details - his love of cane over greenheart, memories of a black Lab that retrieved hung trout flies, the pleasure of testing new water and of being bested by tough fish. Best of all, Halford's autobiography gives us, in words and photographs, wonderful detail about fishing the Test and the Itchen in their Victorian heyday..."Christopher Camuto, Gray's Sporting Journal, Feb/March 1999.

“This book is a beautiful, modest account of the fishing life of this famous sporting gentleman. It tells of his childhood adventures fishing for roach and perch in a nearby pond and how, aged six, he was put in charge of the worms. After his first perch, he was hooked, and his passion for fishing never diminished… aged 23, he fished the Wandle with a newly-bought fly rod and silk and hair fly line. After failing miserably with a team of north-country wet flies he learned the delights of dry fly fishing. Ten years later he was invited to join the Houghton Club on the Test. And the rest is, of course, history, beautifully told in this book. Difficult to put down, An Angler's Autobiography deserves a place in every fisher's library.” Country Club UK, Christmas 2004.

This FFCL edition includes previously unpublished original manuscript pages and photographs. 286 pages • Over 50 sepia and black and white illustrations • Fully bound in leather • Marbled endpapers • Gilt top edge • Silk marker ribbon • Slipcase • Edition of 950 individually numbered copies.