Charles Davis writes “A publishing phenomenon is sweeping through angling – the book you will never get a chance to read. It reached a new stage this week with
news that a book on fishing flies has sold out before it is even published.
It is due to be officially launched at the Flyfishers’ Club tomorrow, but I fear the occasion will be a bit of a damp squib. Its publisher, the
urbane Timothy Benn, hasn’t got any left. The Trout-fly Patterns of John Goddard sold out weeks ago.
Let me assure you that the book does not contain salacious stories of Goddard’s dealings with stoneflies, or even pictures of him cavorting
with caenis. It’s a heavyweight entomological work, whose only illustrations are artificial flies. To compound the mystery, it sells for a
whopping £425 – and that’s just the cheap version.
Story at
sport.independent.co.uk“
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