Fine Angling for Coarse fish

[The Flying Tench]

Re-printed 1968, but I am sure originally published a fair bit sooner, with contributions from Eric Parker, FWK Wallis, Edward Ensom ('Faddist') etc, I think this was a bit of a coarse fishing 'bible' in its time. It was passed to me by a friend whose late husband was an angler, but I have now finished with it. Is there someone with an interest in traditional methods of coarse fishing who would like it? I'd be very happy to post it to you. Hardback 350pp.

[BoldBear]

I also have this book. This is the book that has a chapter by F.W.K. Wallis (chapter twenty-four) called ‘The Modern Light Float Cast from the Reel, Nottingham Style’ which was later known by others as the Wallis Cast; which I previously showed on another post about centrepin use.

Keith

Edited November 2, 2021 by BoldBear

[Chris Plumb]

My copy has a print date of 1943.

[The Flying Tench]

Interesting that they had time to print books on angling in the middle of WW2! I guess it was a source of food in that difficult time, or maybe it was just a case of 'life goes on.'

[chesters1]

Unusual it is ,perhaps its printed on very thin paper? I must look out a couple of very strange books whose pages are unusually roughly cut about the same time.

My copy of Mein Kampf is printed on very thin paper being printed in ww2 , whether fish are mentioned i dont know my grasp of german never went past commando mags

[Ken L]

10 hours ago, chesters1 said:

Unusual it is ,perhaps its printed on very thin paper? I must look out a couple of very strange books whose pages are unusually roughly cut about the same time.

My copy of Mein Kampf is printed on very thin paper being printed in ww2 , whether fish are mentioned i dont know my grasp of german never went past commando mags

You didn't miss much. I didn't make the halfway point before the crazy got to be too much - he had a lot of sensible things to say on nation-building though.

I have a couple of post war martial arts books (Ju-Jitsu) that are printed on very thin paper, with rough cut edges - so it seems to have been pretty common when times were tough.

 

[chesters1]

Or the chap on the guillotine  was having a bad day lol

[Chris Plumb]

23 hours ago, The Flying Tench said:

Interesting that they had time to print books on angling in the middle of WW2! I guess it was a source of food in that difficult time, or maybe it was just a case of 'life goes on.'

I thought the same - and it's not on particularly fine paper - unlike my copy of BB's Fisherman's Bedside Book - mines the 2nd Ed from Oct 1946 - and is on waver thin paper.

[Martin56]

On 11/1/2021 at 5:04 PM, Chris Plumb said:

My copy has a print date of 1943.

I'm no expert at all , but having watched a few TV auction  programs, they could easy fetch 40 to £100 + in the right  auction & on a good day!!

You only need a couple of bidders determined to complete a collection!!!

Edited November 4, 2021 by Martin56

[Chris Plumb]

I very much doubt it - Abebooks has dozens of copies at around a fiver - this is the edition I have for example....https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=594835168&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dfine%2Bangling%2Bfor%2Bcoarse%2Bfish&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title4