I can't resist second hand book shops and particularly angling for fishing books. I've landed some beauties too like many years ago coming across Roderick Haig-Brown’s "A River Never Sleeps," in a second hand bookshop at Paraparaumu. As one critic put it "A River Never Sleeps", is one of the enduring classics of angling. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He writes lovingly of moving water and the moods of the river and its fish.
If you haven't read "A River Never Sleeps" try to get a copy. It’s available on-line. The book’s very arguably Roderick Haig-Brown’s best of a couple of dozen he wrote and that’s high praise in itself, because all of his books are very good to superb. Month by month, he takes the reader from river to river –such as in January, searching for the steelhead, in
