Unterweisungen, wie man Forellen oder Aesche in einem klaren Strome fängt.
Charles Cotton

he first German translation of Walton/Cotton, Part II, Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling, in a Clear Stream. 120 pages; 13x23 cm; 24 historic engravings b/w, 3 plates b/w, 65 colour drawings of all 65 flies; gilt stamped cover; ribbon marker.

Verlag J. Schück, Nürnberg 2000.

In the middle of the 19th century, a certain J. Schumacher translated the third Ephemera edition of The Compleat Angler from 1853 for the P. Salomon & Co. Publishers at Hamburg. This was the first effort to make both Walton's Part I and Cotton's Part II available to a German audience.

However in 1859, just before the the delivery, a fire broke out at P. Salomon & Co. and destroyed nearly the whole edition. Only about a dozen of the inner books survived the disaster and these are recognised to be amongst the scarcest Walton and Cotton editions worldwide. It took about eight years of research to find a copy which was allowed to be reproduced. This all 322 years after Charles Cotton wrote Part II and 141 years after Schumacher's original German translation.

The Schumacher translation is sparsely illustrated compared to the Ephemera edition. But this new German edition gave the opportunity to reproduce Schumacher's German text accompanied with several famous engravings illustrating the great English tradition of Walton and Cotton. These illustrations are enlarged so that they offer some details perhaps previously not noticed.

For the very first time ever, this new German edition publishes colour drawings of all 65 flies which Cotton described or sketched in 1679. After some research as to the materials, colours, shapes, proportions etc., and thanks to his fly fishing experience, fly tying expertise, and grafic skills, Henning von Monteton achieved to reproduce them precisely. The rather neutral shape of the hooks invites and encourages to incorporate these venerable fly patterns in today's fly fishing practises.

As the order of the fly drawings follows exactly the order of Cotton's descriptions, no one needs to read German to evaluate these illustrations, especially if one knows "one's Cotton" by heart.

Orders please to:

J. Schück · Fine Fly-Fishing Publications since 1975 · Lohhofer Str. 11 · 90453 Nürnberg · Germany · Phone: 0049 - 911 - 635055 · Fax: - 6324338 · email.

Price per copy by registered air mail, incl. p. & p. DEM 112 / E(uro) 57 (about USD 52 / GBP 35); by registered surface mail, incl. p. & p. DEM 98 / E(uro) 50 (about USD 45 / GBP 31). Payment please in DEM or E(uro) by MasterCard or VISA (number, expiration-date, signature).