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Ooo - one of my favourite topics!! About time we had a thread like this again.

 

Here's my top 10 - which has taken some time to narrow down from my collection of around 200 books! I have also put a self imposed limit of only allowing an author once - would probably have both John Aston's books and another 3 or 4 Chris Yates and more Gierach.

 

Reflections From the Water's Edge - John Bailey (His best book IMO)
I Know a Good Place - Clive Gammon (also a fantastic travel book!)
A Dream of Jewelled Fishes - John Aston
Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life - Jeremy Paxman (A fantastic anthology)
Rod and Line - Arthur Ransome (sublime)
Red Letter Day s - Paul Rogers Ed.
An Angler for all Seasons - H T Sheringham (A superb anthology from the best angling writer of the 1st half of the 20th C)
Death Taxes and Leaky Waders - John Gierach (another anthology - collected from some of his early books)
The Deepening Pool - Chris Yates (my favourite CY)

No need to Lie - Dick Walker

 

And that's left an awful lot of good books on the 'cutting room floor'!!!

 

 

C.

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Barrie Rickards - Angling: Fundamental Principles

 

Richard Walker - Still Water Angling

 

 

Both are more than just 'how to do it' books. Much environmental issues discussed which are even more relevant today

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In no particular order:-

 

The Carp Strikes Back - Rod Hutchison

 

Big Fish -Trevor Housby

 

Invisible Waters - John Bailey

 

Casting at the Sun - Chris Yates

 

The Fisherman's Bedside Book - BB

 

Confessions of a Carp Fisher BB

 

The Deepening pool - Chris Yates

 

Rod and Line - Arthur Ransome

 

Quest for Barbel - Miles and West

 

Roach - John Bailey

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BB Fisherman's Bedside Book ; Trout Bum - Gierach; Rod and Line - Ransome ; Thy Rod and Thy Creel - Odell Shepherd(left field choice and well worth seeking out ) ; Where the Bright Waters Meet- Plunkett Green ; Somewhere Down the Crazy River- Boote and Wade; Casting at The Sun - Yates; Trout Lochs of Scotland - Sandison - no great work of literature but the author's my kilt's on fire enthusiasm makes it a lovely browse; Fly Fishing - Lord Grey of Fallodon .

 

Oddly enough , nothing by Robson Green , Jack Charlton nor Ian Botham .

 

Obviously the books of John Aston are in a different league but I am sort of biased...

 

Desert Island book- BB 's of course. Best written - Gierach . Nobody gets close.

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Best written - Gierach . Nobody gets close.

Indeed

 

although.......I still treasure (and re-read from time to time) my autographed copy of "Confessions", even though I rarely fish for carp these days.

 

 

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I enjoy Gierach's books. And John Aston's. Yet my first roach book - Big Roach, now sold out - paid for all the other fishing books I own - upwards of 600 so that must be my favourite even if Big Roach 2 seems to be a better book. When it comes down to it I like books that make me think.

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Obviously the books of John Aston are in a different league but I am sort of biased...

 

:bye1:

 

Expanding my list to my top 20 I'd add the following (in no particular order)

 

The New Compleat Angler - Downes & Knowelden - Steve Burke put me on to this - lots of interesting stuff on fish physiology and well written too.

 

Somwhere Else by Charles Rangeley Wilson (Accidental Angler is equally good)

 

Somewhere Down the Crazy River Boote & Wade

 

For all those left behind - John Andrews

 

The Longest Silence - Thomas McQuane

 

A Can of Worms - Jon Berry

 

3 from Chris Yates - Four Seasons, Falling in Again & The Secret Carp

 

And of course - just for you John - The Glorious Uncertainty...

 

 

C.

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I'm glad this thread has come up.

 

I love reading angling books but my preference is for them to be anecdotal rather than informative. Two books which I've bought in the past are Dace: The Prince of the Stream by Dr Mark Everard and Chasing Dreams by Tony Miles, I tried hard to enjoy them but eventually lost interest (although the latter probably deserves another go). The books about the making of A Passion for Angling and Catching the Impossible, however, fascinated me, I couldn't put them down.

 

I would imagine that Chris Yates' style and content would appeal to me but I've not read any of his material so can't be sure. I don't want angling books to make me think, I want them to take me somewhere idyllic where I can't fish in real life.

It's never a 'six', let's put it back

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