What Are You Reading?

[Chris Plumb]

Re-reading some back issues of Waterlog (Which are still available BTW). Just finished The Night Edition (# 4, I think, it's not in front of me ATM).

 

Chris

[M.K]

The longest silence and the past 3 copies of IYCF.

[Andy Macfarlane]

I'm reading The Compleat Angler by Izzak Walton and I'm also reading "48" by James Herbert.I also read Club and Escort when I'm bored.

[greg long]

As far as I'm aware there aren't any gill nets, the board occaisionally trap the pike in nets but most are released elsewhere but this is usually done on Owel. They'd be wasting thier time on sheelin since the pike have acess through the River Inny into the lake. Mind you I caught 8 pike to 13lb one day last year on the fly. are you sure the nets you saw weren't eel nets? all the midland loughs are fished commercially with ffyke nets.

 

anglingireland.info :cool:

[Neil Eppey]

Reading 'Bonefish' by Randalph Kauffman. A must if you are going after them.

[Peter Waller]

Picked up a copy of the 'Book of the Perch' from Harris Angling. This book is 'in depth' in the extreme. Pity that other species haven't given rise to such a creditable book. Much of the joy for me in this book is the excellent coverage of the perch hayday of Oulton Broad, my neck of the wood. It really was a mega bonanza & much of it, but not all of it, is well recorded in the book. Some very good ideas in there for livebaiting which I'm sure will apply to pike. But £90.00 plus for a second hand copy! If I wasn't such a tight git then maybe. To a perch fanatic it has to be worth every penny. Brillient!

Looking at the photographs of some of the contributors though, oh dear, they haven't aged as well as the book

 

[ 06 July 2002, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[davidP]

Me too Peter - my copy arrived today! Anybody know anything about this Steve Burke fella??

[Peter Waller]

davidP:

Me too Peter - my copy arrived today! Anybody know anything about this Steve Burke fella??

Isn't Steve Burke the nom de plume of that Fickling fella, and perch a code word for pike? Naaaa, couldn't be! This Burke fella doesn't wind people up! Does he?

 

[ 06 July 2002, 11:16 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[DMCA]

Humbug...they had sold out when I ordered it...

 

Have to make do with a library copy again (can't afford 90 quid)

[Vagabond]

Yesterday read some of "The Fly" by Andrew Herd, from which I learn that fishing the leaded nymph was invented (or at least first mentioned) by Colonel Robert Venables in 1662.

 

There is a gap of 300 years before leaded flies are mentioned again in angling literature.

 

Not as startling as the 500 year gap between legered herrings for pike being recommended in the "Treatyse" (1450) and rediscovered by the Taylor "brothers" in the early 1950s, but interesting, nevertheless.

 

Are there any fans of John Geirach out there? He writes some of the most entertaining stuff on fishing I have ever read.