Reflections of a Game Fisher - Hardcover

John Goddard is internationally recognized as an authority on all aspects of fly-fishing and also as an expert entomologist and photographer. He is the author of ten books on fishing, the first two of which, Trout Fly Recognition and Trout Flies of Stillwater, are now regarded as classics. Furthermore the book he wrote with Brian Clarke, The Trout and the Fly, is considered to be one of the most important to be written in the last 100 years. It is now fifty years since John Goddard first cast a fly on the water and for thirty of those years he has been contributing groundbreaking articles on a wide variety of topics to all the leading angling journals. Now, reflecting on his long career, John Goddard has meticulously complied a volume of the best of these writings, which represents the distillation of his lifetime of achievements in the sport. Reflections of a Game Fisher is compulsive reading and a book to be savoured by anyone with an enthusiasm for angling.

During his formative years John Goddard also developed a great interest in deep sea fishing and on many occasions was chosen to represent England in the Deep Sea Internationals. Between the mid 1960s and 1980s he undertook publicity tours and fishing surveys for various tourist boards and travel companies that took him to some of the most exciting fishing locations in the world. He retired fifteen years ago and since then, being a qualified casting instructor, has been leading and assisting groups of fly-fishers on trips to many exotic locations world wide.