Description
There are tales of salmon and trout with sections on coarse fishing: carp, tench, barbel, perch, roach, bream, pike and chub. The 'Bishop Browne' story of the giant salmon that was hooked in 1896 where the Earn flows into the Tay and fought for ten hours before the line went slack, cannot fail to arouse a thrill in all fishermen!
The book includes the distinctive scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford ('BB'). Ian Niall in his introudciton describes how BB's artistic vision and naturalist's observation enabled him to look at the reeds and rushes, the ancient pollarded willow by the pool and the duck shedding water droplets from frantically beating wings as it springs into the air, and to capture them in illustration and word.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
"This is a book to keep any fisherman awake at night" --The Observer
"The best fishing anthology I have ever read" --Arthur Ransome
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