Coch-y-Bonddu Book Review
Based in the small mid-Wales town of Machynlleth, Coch-y-Bonddu Books are publishers and leading international dealers in new and out-of-print books on angling, game shooting, sporting dogs and falconry. This thriving business grew out of the interests of owner, Paul Morgan, who issued his first catalogue of second-hand fishing and sporting books in 1982, while still working as a water bailiff on the River Dyfi. The rapidly expanding publishing side of the business reflects Paul’s love of fishing for Welsh mountain trout, Dyfi sewin and the wild bass of the Welsh coast. While welcoming visitors to the shop, Coch-y-Bonddu Books does much of its business online via its website
www.anglebooks.com.
Book Reviews
Successful Sea Trout Angling
Successful Sea Trout Angling
Graeme Harris & Moc Morgan
ISBN 0952851016, Coch-y-Bonddu Books, hardback £19.95.
This is largely about fly fishing for sea trout in rivers but also includes extensive sections on worm-fishing and spinning, fishing in tidal-water, loch-fishing and the natural history and literature of the sea trout. Graeme Harris is a world authority on the sea trout and an expert sea trout angler. Moc Morgan, brought up on the Teifi, is an internationally recognised angler who has fished for sewin all his life. Together they have an unsurpassed knowledge and experience of sea trout and sea trout angling, particularly in Wales and the West.
Saltwater Flyfishing
Saltwater Flyfishing
Paul Morgan
ISBN 0952851091, Coch-y-Bonddu Books, hardback £19.95.
Saltwater fly fishermen from all over Northern Europe contribute information on methods, places and patterns for catching saltwater fish on the fly. Species covered include salmon, sea trout, bass, pollack & coalfish, mullet, garfish, flatties and cod in an area ranging from Northern Norway to Southern Ireland. The contributors include Mike Ladle on bass and mullet, Stan Headley on Orkney sea-trout and many other European experts on a variety of fish from Norwegian cod to Baltic sea-trout. Included are extracts from the existing literature on saltwater flyfishing. Extensive bibliographies of sea-trout and of saltwater flyfishing are included.
Of particular interest to anglers in Wales are the chapters on fly fishing for bass and mullet.
Flies of Wales
Flies of Wales
Moc Morgan
ISBN 1873674252, Merlin Unwin Books, hardback £20.00.
This is the definitive guide to the salmon, sea trout and trout flies of Wales, both traditional and modern. Wales has a rich collection of flies: from bushy bob flies for the rivers, to small emergers for the trout lakes; from silvery lures for sewin, to streamlined hairwings for salmon. Moc gives tying instructions for each pattern as well as some information about the flies’ originators and history. Good colour photographs are used to illustrate each pattern. For all the low-down on Harry Tom, Dovey Bumble, Haul-a-Gwynt and even the Coch-y-Bonddu!
The Complete Book of the Grayling
The Complete Book of the Grayling
Ronald Broughton
ISBN 0709064233
Robert Hale Limited, hardback £20.
A revised and expanded edition of Grayling: The Fourth Gamefish by the President of the Grayling Society, Dr Ronald Broughton. Commencing with an informative chapter on the origins and present distribution of grayling, the book then deals with the occurrence of this fish in chalk streams, stillwaters and rivers and describes grayling hotspots throughout the world. Fly dressings and fly-fishing techniques for grayling are described and explained. Broughton has brought together chapters by specialists in grayling fishing throughout Britain and Europe, plus Russia, Mongolia and North America. The extensive section on grayling flies also draws on the experiences of Europe's experts.