Random Casts by Eugene V. Connett

Random Casts is a trout-fishing book by Eugene V. Connett III, published by his own Derrydale Press in New York in 1939. Connett (1891-1969), a Princeton graduate, founded Derrydale in 1927, and the house became known as a publisher devoted to sporting books. Here he writes as an angler first: Kirkus Reviews described the book as a guide to catching bigger and better trout, looking at the fishing from the trout's point of view as well as the angler's, with chapters on dry flies, wet flies and nymphs and how to dress them. Stories are woven in, with anecdotes of well-known anglers such as La Branche and Hewitt. Conceived as a companion to Connett's earlier Any Luck and Fishing a Trout Stream, it belongs on the shelf beside them.

• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fair (moderate wear)
• Other Notes: Signed