THE TROUT FISHERMAN'S BIBLE.

ByDan Holland '36. New York: Doubleday,1962. 190 pp. $1.95.

Our talented Dartmouth writer and photographer on outdoor subjects, Dan Holland '36, has contributed a great deal to the lore of hunting and fishing, to the enjoyment of many readers of his books and articles. Dan wrote and Doubleday published The UplandGame Hunter's Bible earlier, and the present Trout Fisherman's Bible is a companion book.

Dan Holland has hunted and fished all over. His pictures and experiences in angling for sport fish cover such scattered dream spots as Alaska, New Hampshire, Chile, Quebec, Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, Manitoba, and way stations. His companions more often than not - and their pictures and proof of heavy catches appear in this book - have been Corey Ford, Alastair MacBain, Frank Dufresne, and on occasion his distinguished father, Ray Holland, former editor of Field and Stream. His brother Bob is a companion colorphotographer par excellence.

The author covers such a variety of fishing, its techniques and equipment, that no one could find compressed in one book more information, or more readably and attractively presented. Dan is a modest sportsman. But when he advises on these matters, it is counsel very well worth taking.

Among the scores of splendid photos I most enjoy the series of four taken at Gods River, Manitoba, which his caption says "is one of the rare places where a camera can first be set on a tripod in anticipation of taking this series of self-timer pictures of hooking, playing, and landing a five-pound eastern brook trout."

But of all the distant and exciting and productive streams that Dan has fished, we'll bet he would just as soon step in the evening into the head of a handsome pool on the White River up around Gaysville, Vermont, not far from his home near Hanover, with a hatch of May flies rising and rainbow trout smashing at a softly floating dry fly. Maybe he'd rather.