ISBN 0908685 99 8

At the end of the twentieth century it is appropriate to look back and reflect on the past one hundred years of trout fishing in New Zealand. The compilers, well known angling authors, John Parsons and Bryn Hammond,
have gathered together one hundred items by almost one hundred authors that demonstrate the wealth of trout
fishing that has been and is available in New Zealand.

Starting at 1900 the earliest item (from `Notes on Salmonidae and their Home in the Far Pacific' by
A J Rutherfurd) and each of the chosen items explore attitudes and experience over the century up to the most
recent, published in 1999. They have been gathered from New Zealand and overseas writers, the familiar and the
unknown (at least in New Zealand), some published in Europe, Australia and the United States, which without
the research of the compilers, both passionate anglers and bibliophiles, might never be brought to the attention
of the reader.

The book is a celebration of one hundred years of New Zealand trout fishing and a fitting book to be the last
published by the Halcyon Press in the twentieth century