What was your first fishing book?
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
I too collected the Fisherman's Handbook, with the money from my paper round. Mine are unbound but I still use them for reference
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
I am in one of those -- no idea which now!
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Can't forget this one either.
I bought this again recently and it took me straight back to boyhood
I bought this again recently and it took me straight back to boyhood
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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My favourite chapter of F/S is the "Number Six", altho "The Lily Pad Hole" is a short but memoreble chapter, thanks for that link TengisgolTengisgol wrote:My first fishing book was 'The Shell Book of Angling'. My father worked in Shell Centre and bought it in the Shell shop.
The floats though will be of interest to Bluelabel, the top one is the original and belonged to Bernard Venables. It was designed to fish the Lily Pad Hole on the River Beane for the monster roach, as per the chapter in 'Favourite Swims'. I have a strong hunch I know who made it as well but can't be certain. The second one is a replica built by Andrew Field and I used it once to catch some tench, so it does work!
The Shell Book of Angling is a tremendous book and I know pretty much every word (in the Coarse section at least!) with a second-to-none cast list of contributors.
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
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Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
The angling times Kingfisher guild book and badge
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
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Oh dear! I have that as well with my Scout's Fishing badge and some certificates for several roach.
My Father worked at Shell outside Waterloo Station -- but I never got that lovely book - I wonder why?
My Father worked at Shell outside Waterloo Station -- but I never got that lovely book - I wonder why?
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Either I-Spy Fish and Fishing or Fishing with Mr Crabtree in All Waters
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wonderfully illustrated books these...loved the Bird books they produced as well, beautiful picturesSnape wrote:Can't forget this one either.
I bought this again recently and it took me straight back to boyhood
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I think that was one of my first tooCarp Artist wrote:Begin Fishing With Uncle Bill
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I started fishing between 3 & 4, the first book I recall taking an interest in, or I was directed to, was the Observers book of Freshwater fish, vainly trying to identify the fish. We still have the book in our library, a 1940`s addition if I remember correctly.....