Ian Chalmers

A charming, modest book about salmon fishing of the less expensive sort, the fishing that most of us enjoy, ghillie-less, carefree fishing with a rod that can be used single-handed. Mr. Chalmers urges the salmon fisher in small rivers to confine himself to fly-fishing "because it is my firmest conviction that the fly accounts for far more fish from this type of river than any other lure".

(Arthur Ransome, Fishing, 1955, p. 22).