Fishing Books

[tiddlertamer]

My selection was my pick of nearly 200 books in my collection - think I've got just about everything Chris Yates has ever published, loads of anthologies - The Fisherman's Bedside Book by BB and the Magic Wheel by Profumo & Swift are both worth seeking out, a dozen+ John Bailey's and quite a bit of the Medlar catalogue!!! Almost none of my reading falls into the 'how to' category or the self indulgent 'how I caught the wacker' bracket!

 

 

C.

 

It's not really a carp book but Blood Knots by Luke Jennings is a great angling book. Well worth a read.

[tony tinca]

I have just finished reading Ian Chillcott's book which i got for Christmas and i really enjoyed it, it just confirmed what i thought of the man (gets on with it and doesn't get involved with the crap involved with so much carp fishing and carp fisherman)

 

Anyway the question is....what book next?

 

Have read

 

In pursuit of the largest - El Tel

The carp strikes back

various Paisleys

A handful of others

 

I like the 'i done this, i caught that' style of diary book. I don't particularly care for a databases of rigs and tackle because they are out of date by the time the book is published.

 

Any ideas would be much appreciated

 

Carp strikes back was that written by rod hutchinson ? i used to have it many years ago but cant find it now

[Chris Plumb]

It's not really a carp book but Blood Knots by Luke Jennings is a great angling book. Well worth a read.

 

Started it last night - looks excellent!!

 

 

C.

[pearbo]

Yeah thats the one, i bought a 2nd edition (no. 756 of 795) its signed by the author and the illustrator. Its a great little book, could probably read it once a year. Have got 'carp now and then' by rod too, its a bit more technical but still has some good stories in.

 

I would try to find the original if i were you, its worth a nice little bit, otherwise its a good book in your collection.

 

 

Well Another edition anyway, the one with the black cover

Edited January 14, 2011 by pearbo

[Steve Burke]

I've recently bought Chevin's book "Our Days with Dick" as well, and much enjoyed it. Unlike many tribute books in various fields, this one had longer pieces that allowed the contributors to really say what was special about the man, and included many amusing anecdotes. As a result I felt I knew Dick Walker, whom I never met but briefly corresponded with, a lot better.

 

Thanks, Ian.

Edited January 14, 2011 by Steve Burke

[chesters1]

i have a hundred or two as well ,never read one ,glanced through a few.i keep picking up a leatherbound fishermans bedtime book but reading it would spoil owning it i'm sure so i put it back.

i was told every time you read something the black letters fade and make the pages go very slightly brown

i was also told lights work by sucking dark out of a room ,i questioned it and the chap said with filament bulbs it was hard to prove but you could with tubes ,if you look at them after a while the ends get full of dark and once their full of dark they wont suck anymore when switched on (its proved by the room staying full of dark) put in an empty one and it sucks away

Edited January 14, 2011 by chesters1

[Steve Burke]

I've quite a few of the titles mentioned above up for sale on my web site, www.classicfishingbooks.co.uk. It's not up to date and so a few have sold, plus I've dozens more to add.

[Vagabond]

My selection was my pick of nearly 200 books in my collection

 

Just dragged up my old library spread sheet

406 books on angling

52 books on fish recognition/classification

25 books on hunting and shooting

6 books on fishery management

 

...and its a couple of years since I updated it

[chesters1]

spread sheet your as bad as me with one on my mobile phone just incase i bump into an intrepid out and about

[Janet]

Just a few of my favourites, but the ones I read over and over again...

 

A Dream of Jewelled Fishes - Jon Aston

Angling Vagabond...a glorious boyhood - Dave Park

Up Against It - Martin James

Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life - Jeremy Paxman

The Magic Wheel - an anthology of fishing in literature - edited by David Profumo & Graham Swift

 

Janet

Edited January 14, 2011 by Janet