FIRST PUBLISHED: Sydney, Angling and Gun Sport, 1939.
THIS EDITION: Numbered facsimile reprint, 1992, this copy numbered 45. The edition does not state its total print run anywhere in the publication itself.
Richard Henry ("Dick") Wigram (1903–1970) was one of Tasmania's most influential angling writers, contributing a fishing column to the Launceston Examiner for 38 years and completing six books over his career, all now noted for both their content and their scarcity: Trout and Fly in Tasmania (1938), Nymph Fishing in the Southern Hemisphere (1939), Anglers Guide to Tasmania (1946, revised 1959), The Uncertain Trout (1951), The Shannon Rise (1953), and The Fly (2002, published posthumously).
Wigram is credited with developing several enduring Tasmanian fly patterns, including "Wigram's Robin" and "Wigram's Brown Nymph" (widely known as the "Pot Scrubber"), and did much to encourage Tasmania's commercial fly-tying industry. He was inducted into the Anglers Alliance Tasmania Hall of Fame in 2007.
Nymph Fishing in the Southern Hemisphere was among the earliest works to address nymph fishing technique specifically in Australian and New Zealand conditions, at a time when the method — pioneered in England by G.E.M. Skues — was still a matter of controversy among traditional dry-fly anglers. Original editions are now very scarce; this is a numbered facsimile reprint.
We also stock Wigram's Trout and Fly in Tasmania (1938 first edition) — see Related Products below.
COLLATION: 24pp.; illustrated with line drawings.
DIMENSIONS: 21cm x 14cm (approx.).
BINDING: Hardcover.
ENDPAPERS: Plain, nothing printed.
CONDITION: Very good. Light bumping to the corners of the boards; internally clean.
PROVENANCE: No bookplates, inscriptions, or prior ownership marks present.
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