Trout and Fly in Tasmania | R.H. Wigram | First Edition 1938 [USED – HCDJ]

FIRST PUBLISHED: Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. First edition.

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: 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). He 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 was inducted into the Anglers Alliance Tasmania Hall of Fame in 2007.

Trout and Fly in Tasmania was Wigram's first book, and holds particular bibliographic standing: in his foreword, Charles Harrison recommended it as "a standard practical work on Tasmanian trout fishing," a status it held until superseded by David Scholes' Fly Fisher in Tasmania in 1961. It was also the only title with solely Australian content to be included in James Robb's Notable Angling Literature (1947), the standard bibliography of the genre.

We also stock Wigram's Nymph Fishing in the Southern Hemisphere (numbered facsimile) and The Uncertain Trout (1951 first edition) — see Related Products below.

BOOK DETAILS

COLLATION: 96pp.
DIMENSIONS: 13cm x 18.5cm (approx.).
BINDING: Hardcover, in the original dustjacket.
CONDITION: Good internally for its age. Dustjacket worn and torn with marks on it - see photo. Corners of cover bumped and worn. Endpapers tanned. Foxing on outer edge of page block.

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