World Trout Fly Fishing Competion under the auspices of Castlebar and District Trout Anglers’ Association. Commencing Easter Saturday, 4th April, 1953. Venue Lough Mask.

An Tostal, 1953. With map and illustrations. Together with: Souvenir of the first World Trout Fly Fishing Competion under the auspices of Castlebar and District Trout Anglers’ Association. Commencing Easter, 1953. With a fly attached to a green and gold label. Castlebar: Connaught Telegraph, 1953. Octavo. pp. (1) 48, [Including Adverts] (2) 6. Printed stapled wrappers. Both in very good condition.

With notices of Mayo’s Great Lakes, Rules Governing the Competion, Crossmolina, Westport of the Welcomes, Ballinrobe, Lough Mask and its Trout, Lough Corrib, Cong, Oughterard, Newport - The Sportman’s Eden. Also features eighty-seven year old Mr T.P. Moran, President of the Castlebar and District Trout Anglers’ Association, holding a 7.5lb beauty caught on Lough Mask on his 77th birthday. The first prize of £250 and Perpetual Trophy was for the heaviest trout caught.