Best Yates Book

[Steve Burke]

I am not sure that Chris is the 'great' angling writer that many appear to suggest. I picked up 'Falling In Again' from a charity shop, presumably the previous owner was unimpressed and so was I. The book version of Passion is enjoyable, I wouldn't part with it, but, on balance, not sure that Chris is much better than John Bailey!!

 

Peter, in the opinion of many "Falling in Again" isn't a patch on most of Chris's work. Try some of his others, especially Casting at the Sun and the Deepening Pool - I'm sure you'll enjoy them. I consider Chris the best angling writer of modern times, and in fact one of the best ever.

[Peter Waller]

http://www.classicfishingbooks.co.uk/fishbooks/index.asp

 

Thanks Steve, I'll wait until I see a copy in Oxfam! At that price it must be good!!

[chappers]

Casting at the Sun is autobiographical. Falling in Again is a series of short stories. Secret Carp is basically the story of a day spent on a secret carp lake.

 

I've reviwed all these books at various times

 

Falling in Again (along with Deepening Pool) can be found here...

 

http://www.anglers-net.co.uk/bookreview/index.shtml

 

While my thoughts on CATS & SC are on Steve Burke's site...here:

 

http://www.classicfishingbooks.co.uk/fishb...eview.asp?id=21

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I have to agree it is a close call between Chris yates and John Bailey

[ayjay]

I have to agree it is a close call between Chris yates and John Bailey

 

 

What is?

[Peter Waller]

What is?

 

 

Well, there are some that don't rate Bailey too highly! So yes, what is?

[peter mccue]

As good a writer as John Bailey is, I always get the feeling that his schoolteacher background stops his writings being truly heartfelt, there's an essay feel about a sizeable number of his books.

 

Chris Yates on the other hand, is in my opinion one of the true greats. His descriptive passages in Casting at the Sun & the Deepening pool, are rich in detail & honesty. Not many writers can create that warm glow of recognition you get when you feel you understand exactly what the writer is trying to convey.

[Wordbender]

Chris Yates is a superb angling writer - my personal favourite - but Falling In Again is not on a par with his other work, in my opinion.

 

His skill in bringing to life the special moments in angling is unsurpassed and The Deepening Pool is, I'd say, the greatest example of this.

 

If you ever get the chance, please read Chris Yates and discover what so many of us are raving on about.

[Alan Stubbs]

Although I enjoyed 'The Deepening Pool', it's the only Yates book I've read.

 

Without being sycophantic, my favourite angling author has to be Jim Gibbinson - the technical detail is there in total clarity, but it is the undercurrent of humour which kept me turning the pages over.

[DavyR]

Dick Walker's "Conversation pieces" in the Angling Times in the 1960s are *still* the most enjoyable examples of angling writing I know. I've got a fair-sized collection of angling books, but very few published after 1970 (although I've read plenty of them from the public library).

[Guest Josh Iddon]

Im reading Izaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler' at the moment, at first i have to be honest and I thought it would be the type of thing people say are good just because its old. But I am genuinly enjoying it, and even more surprisingly im learning from it! I just like finding out how they used to fish and the methods used, they made fishing line out of horse hair! And find ti funny that they could catch fish with the tackle they use and we still struggle. The old English is also a lot easier to understand than I first thought. Josh