There’s little doubt that commercial fisheries will ultimately dominate UK angling. After all, rivers are threatened by predation, pollution, dreging, invasive species and fish thefts. And that’s just for starters. Worse than Continue Reading →
Avid book collector Chris Quinn shares more of his thoughts on the fishing book collecting and publishing world. My first ramblings seemed to go down OK so it’s time launch Continue Reading →
Backwinding by Alan Rawden If you get your angling information through the angling media you’ll probably never heard of Alan Rawden, but trust me, mention his name to any of Continue Reading →
The past year or so has seen the publication of some fabulous angling books, books that have given me hours and hours of pleasure and in some cases set the Continue Reading →
The Angling Artists is a magnificent book compiled by Tony Meers and produced in the classy manner we’ve come to expect from Stephen Harper. It’s far more than a book Continue Reading →
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 →