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ON TROUT STREAMS AND SALMON RIVERS.

MARCH 1964 SIDNEY C. HAYWARD '26
Books
ON TROUT STREAMS AND SALMON RIVERS.
MARCH 1964 SIDNEY C. HAYWARD '26

By Dana S. Lamb '21. Barre,Mass.: Barre Publishing Company, 196397 pp. $10.00.

Dana S. Lamb '21 is a frequent contributor to the Anglers' Club of New York Bulletin and the Atlantic Salmon Association Journal. He is, among fly fishermen, a famed writer of delightful accounts of outings, especially for Atlantic salmon and trout on the streams of New Brunswick, Quebec, and way stations.

Dana is in constant demand, because of his eloquent descriptions of expeditions, at the famed Long Table of the Anglers' Club at 101 Broad Street where we as a non-resident but dues-paying member, are welcome but too seldom enjoy his company and the good company of other such alumni-anglers as Louis Munro '19, Hank Bjorkman '25, and Paul Sample '20 - our particular chum of long-distance summer travel to remote northern rivers.

The author and his wife, or other companions, skillfully cast feathered lures with light rods to bring fighting game fish to the surface, to be hooked, landed, and more often than not to be released to swim freely away. They travel to find the unspoiled places.

But there is more than fishing in Dana's safaris to the Eastern Provinces. Like our great Dartmouth trustee of earlier years, Fred A. Howland 'B7, whose bookplate bore' the legend Piscator non solem piscatur," the author is also a "fisherman who not only fishes." The tales in this delightful book are interlarded with lovely scenes, interesting people, and unique places. His current volume On Trout Streams and SalmonRivers brings together a number of published essays that have come from his prolific pen and perceptive mind.

The book is published in a limited edition with proceeds going entirely to the splendid activity of his daughter, Faith, and her dedicated young husband, the Rev. Robert A. Bryan. They minister to the needy m barren sub-Arctic regions. We hope that sale of the book will help them and their Quebec-Labrador Mission Foundation.

Secretary of the College Hayward hasbeen known to throw out a line or two.