Issue 59 - Autumns on the Spey
If I was set to compile a list of angling books with beguiling titles, A. E. Knox’s Autumns on the Spey would be an automatic entrant into the top ten, along with John Waller Hills’ A Summer on the Test and Chris Yates’ Casting at the Sun. Each title is a siren call to open the cover and dip inside and yet, although Yates’ and Hills’ books have been reprinted many times, Autumns is barely known outside specialist salmon fly-tying circles, where it is treasured for a list of early Spey patterns. I have never entirely been able to understand this, because Autumns is at least as good a book as A Summer on the Test, the one crime it has committed being that its content is not entirely devoted to fishing.
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