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 →
It is more than a quarter of a Century since Dick Walker died yet his legacy lives on. It does so for good reason. He was a one-off. Walker had Continue Reading →
Mpress has published an impressive array of angling books recently, something that Cliff Moulder can feel rightfully proud of, but when it comes to that very special, almost coffee table standard Continue Reading →
In all my years I cannot honestly say I have ever seen a better ‘how to’ book than the new Haynes Coarse Fishing Manual. Whether you target commercial waters, rivers Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of Brian Roberts’ Jack’s Pike cartoons for a while but until now they were only available on his excellent web site. With Christmas Continue Reading →
Ivan Marks: The People’s Champion is a collection of the best columns the match legend wrote for AnglingTimes during the 1970s. In this one, taken from the first chapter entitled Continue Reading →
Too Many Rods – Derek Stritton “Too Many Rods” is the book Derek Stritton has said he always wanted to write and charts his fishing over a fifty year period. Continue Reading →
Tales Of The Riverbank is a collection of stories from my past, a retrospective blog if you like. They are the truth as I remember it which means you may Continue Reading →
Angling wouldn’t be described as a passion if it wasn’t for passionate people and Mick Hanson is as passionate as any. After years of contributing to the angling press his Continue Reading →
Targets Set And Achieved Targets Set And Achieved is Phil Smith’s latest offering. Around one third of the book relates his attempt to catch double figure barbel from ten different Continue Reading →
I am proud to announce that Tom Oreilly at Little Egret Press has kindly offered to let me publish an extract from the forthcoming book, Stillwater Angling, by Dave Tipping Continue Reading →