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We've touched today on the angling writers whose eloquence transports us through time, allowing us to share their innermost thoughts and experiences almost as if they were our own.

 

There seems to be a very limited pool of such books, and I'm hoping that there are still some jewels out there that have passed me by.

 

Which writings have impressed you over the years?

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

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We've touched today on the angling writers whose eloquence transports us through time, allowing us to share their innermost thoughts and experiences almost as if they were our own.

 

There seems to be a very limited pool of such books, and I'm hoping that there are still some jewels out there that have passed me by.

 

Which writings have impressed you over the years?

 

A writer sadly no longer with us wrote a couple of beautiful books about childhood, and growing up with an extremely benevolent grandfather, who was as daft as the boy about fishing and hunting - though very talented in a natural 'gifted' way. Think Jack Hargreaves, but in the US :D

The books are NOT easy to get hold of, being out of print for many years: I've lost count how many times I've re-read them since I first opened their pages maybe 40 years ago.

Titled 'The Old Man and The Boy', the writer was Robert Ruark: the sequel was TOMATB Grow Older ... chicken soup for the soul! :D

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1/ The whopper by bb

2/ Casting at the sun by Chris Yates

3/ The secret carp by Chris yates

4/ Redmire pool by Clifford & Arbery

5/ Spirit of the pond by Tom O Reilly

Loads more faviorites

No6 Pool of the black witch by BB

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We've touched today on the angling writers whose eloquence transports us through time, allowing us to share their innermost thoughts and experiences almost as if they were our own.

 

There seems to be a very limited pool of such books, and I'm hoping that there are still some jewels out there that have passed me by.

 

Which writings have impressed you over the years?

For all you "non-carpies", (sorry boys!), don't overlook anything by David Carl Forbes and for the float fishermen out there... The Float by Keith Harwood.

"....you should have been here yesterday!"
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My favourites include:

 

Rod & Line by Arthur Ransome

Tales of Freshwater Fishing by Zane Grey

I Know a Good Place by Clive Gammon

Saltwater Fly Fishing by Joe Brooks

Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett whilst by no means a fishing book does touch on Mahseer fishing and is a cracking read in its own right.

Regards, Clive

 

 

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Its not really a bedtime book, but when it comes to information, detail and top notch advice this book is brilliant http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concise-Encycloped...2743&sr=1-3

 

I'd recommend it to a new angler in a flash. That one and the books by Tony Whieldon, which are a bit outdated but still very good http://www.amazon.co.uk/Coarse-Fishing-Ski...2840&sr=1-6.

As famous fisherman John Gierach once said "I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't."

 

 

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There seems to be a very limited pool of such books, and I'm hoping that there are still some jewels out there that have passed me by.

 

 

Au contraire - I'd say angling has spawned a fair few decent inspirational reads over the years...

 

Some books I would recommend from my (now not so) little angling library would include....

 

 

For All Those Left Behind - John Andrews (reminds me of my late father)

Reflections From the Water's Edge - John Bailey (His best book IMO)

I Know a Good Place - Clive Gammon (also a fantastic travel book!)

The Lady of the Stream - Paul Morgan (an anthology about one of my favourite fish - the Grayling)

Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life - Jeremy Paxman (A fantastic anthology - if I was only allowed one book on a desert island it would have to be this one!)

Rod and Line - Arthur Ransome (sublime)

Red Letter Days - 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)

Mr Crabtree goes Fishing - Bernard Venables (sentimental reasons - without this book I would not have been an angler)

The Deepening Pool - Chris Yates (my favourite CY)

The Secret Carp - Chris Yates (Writing that is just about as close to perfection as it is possible to get!)

Casting at the Sun - CY again - though I rate the 2 above as even better

Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders - John Gierach - If you never read any Gierach - start here!

The Float - Keith Harwood - The sort of Book Medlar do really well!

Somewhere Down The Crazy River - Boote and Wade

The New Complete Angler - Downes & Knowelden - Steve Burke put me on to this (thanks) Seriously under-rated work, scholarly yet readable - a must have for any angler.

The Longest Silence - Thomas McGuane

No Need to Lie - Dick Walker

Trout at 10000 Feet - John Bailey

Four Seasons - Chris Yates

Small Stream Fishing - David Carl Forbes

Somewhere Else,

The Accidental Angler - both by Charles Rangeley Wilson

A Dream of Jewelled Fishes - Jon Aston

A Can of Worms - Jon Berry

The River Prince - Barbel anthology ed by Chris Yates.

Out of the Blue - Chris Yates

Falling in Again - also Chris Yates

Angling Vagabond - Dave Park (of this parish!)

Crock of Gold - Peter Rolfe

Blood Knots - Luke Jennings

Dace - the Prince of the Stream - Mark Everard

 

 

I could go on! (I have nearly 200 angling books!) :rolleyes:

 

C.

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Yes, all of the above, but would add one or two more

 

Always Fishing. by the late Roger Standen. He wrote many articles but only the one book.

 

Philandering Angler by Arthur Applin - wonderful description of the "Bull" Hotel in Capt Parker's time, and many other places

 

This Fishing by Capt L A Parker

 

A Highland Stream by John Inglis Hall - one of the very few UK writers who understood small-stream trout.

 

Walton's Delight by George Brennand A real gem. Not about fish, but about the different types of anglers. Hilarious

 

and it can't be said often enough - anything by John Geirach.

 

 

RNLI Governor

 

World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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I have read a few of the above especially Dick Walker and Chris Yates and the infamous Mr Crabtree goes fishing. I am always on the lookout for old falconry books (believe me some of the older ones are worth a fortune) and also Fishing books at boot fairs. A house clearance coughs up a few now and again.

 

I still read any books though on Angling from Mr Crabtree to my latest which is a book specialising on zander that I am half way through 'Zander Fishing' by Mark Barrett and Neville fickling. Give me a book on fishing and I will read it... :)

If i am not flying my birds i read about them and if i am not fishing i read a book on it. :D

 

The same with animals too. I have worked with them in and out of their enviroment and have wrote many articles on them and i constantly study them. The mind of some animals fascinate me . but finding really good books are difficult.

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I could go on! (I have nearly 200 angling books!) :rolleyes:

 

C.

 

An angler for all seasons - great book agree

Accidental angler - V good book and can be bought quite cheaply

 

I have a similar size collection but still have some i would like

No need to lie - r walker

 

Good list there i would agree with most of them

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