It should be obvious to anyone visiting this web site that I not only enjoy reading angling books, I also do my best to promote and support the authors and publishers by Continue Reading →
Book Extract: Barbel Tales from the Barbel Society I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed reading Barbel Tales. It’s one of those dipping books that would grace any angler’s book Continue Reading →
CARPING ASIDE: DON’T WRITE ME OF! by Bob Morris is published by Fishing Book Sender. Edited and designed by Mike Starkey with cartoons by Jerry Thornton-Jones. It has 200 pages, 235 x Continue Reading →
A LIFE FOR CARP by Peter Mohan is published by Fishing Book Sender. Edited and designed by Mike Starkey, the forward is by Roger Emmet. It has 200 pages, 255 Continue Reading →
Mammoth Pike – The Update – 2004-2012, Neville Fickling The world’s changing at a ridiculous pace. It is unlikely that magazines and books will be printed on paper for much Continue Reading →
Book Extract – The Eel Angler – Barry McConnell The Eel Angler by Barry McConnell is the true-to-life account of fanatical eeling adventures that takes Barry from Cape Wrath in Continue Reading →
Anglers Paradise – 25 Years of the 5 C’s – Zyg Gregorek and Friends – Little Egret Press For me it began with a phone call from Len Gurd, ‘Have Continue Reading →
Angling Encounters by Bob Buteux, Tony Meers and friends Big thanks to Stephen Harper for allowing me to publish these extracts from Angling Encounters, a collection of fishing tales buy Continue Reading →
Regular readers of my blog will probably appreciate that I’m a big fan of Brian Roberts’ Jack’s Pike cartoons. I first came across them in his Pike Blog and as Continue Reading →
Underwater Angling by Paul Garner and Stuart Morgan promises to be a special book for it will reveal untold secrets of the underwater world. When Stu Walker and I made Continue Reading →
THE Diamond Jubilee of the capture of Clarissa, Dick Walker’s record-breaking 44lb carp, is being celebrated with the launch of a new Dick Walker book, The Carp Godfather edited by Continue Reading →
I’ve been busy ploughing through a pile of books lately and maybe you’d like to know what I think of them. Perhaps you might even invest in one or more Continue Reading →
Matt Hayes has come a long way since that fateful afternoon he introduced himself to me at Linear Fisheries, Newport Pagnell nearly 25 years ago – how time flies, eh?. Continue Reading →
Travelling down to Essex with Brian Skoyles recently our conversation wound its way around to other anglers and he asked if I’d met Jerry Hammond. To my knowledge I hadn’t but Continue Reading →
I waited impatiently for this book to arrive. The previous Perchfishers book had been a classic. Could a new one live up to the same high standards set by the Continue Reading →