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Red Letter Days

Published: 1994 Author: Peter Rogers (Ed.) Illustrated by John Searl Reviewed by: Chris Plumb "Great triumphs do not come often in angling, and this
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Drop Me A Line

Published: 1953 Author: Richard Walker and Maurice Ingham Reviewed by: Spindle In 1949, two articles in the then popular Fishing Gazette, prompted an unknown ...
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Confessions Of A Carp Fisher

Published: 1950 Author: BB Reviewed by: Spindle This is not going to be easy. Reviewing what is, in my humble opinion, one of the ...
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Fishing Days

Published: 1966 Author: Geoffrey Bucknall Reviewed by: Steve Burke Geoff Bucknall’s “Big Pike” is well-known and highly regarded, probably because it’s about one of ...
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I Know A Good Place

Published: 1989 Author: Clive Gammon Reviewed by: Chris Plumb This book set me back the grand sum of 20 pence and was then in ...
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Reflections from the Water's Edge and Trout at Ten Thousand Feet

Published: 1987/2001 Author: John Bailey Reviewed by: Chris Plumb These two excellent volumes could be said to represent the 'bookends' of John Bailey's angling ...
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Rod And Line

Published: 1980 Author: Arthur Ransome Reviewed by: Chris Plumb Use of the word 'classic' is sometimes over-wrought when it comes to describing an old ...
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Somewhere Down the Crazy River

Published: 1992 Author: Paul Boote & Jeremy Wade Reviewed by: Chris Plumb The full title of this book is - "Somewhere Down the Crazy ...
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For All Those Left Behind

Published: September, 2002 Author: John Andrews Reviewed by: Chris Plumb I had to pluck up courage to read this book. I knew from the ...
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The Fisherman's Bedside Book

Published: 1945 Author: BB Reviewed by: Chris Plumb This veritable treasure trove of an angling anthology was once described in the angling magazine Waterlog ...
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Andrew Wedgbury Andrew Wedgbury was born in Redditch, a town with a pretty good claim to being the spiritual homeland of angling. He’s told that he has a distant connection to the famous tackle manufacturer Samuel Allcock and, as Redditch people, many of his ancestors would have certainly worked in the fishing tackle industry.