The Creel..

[Michael]

I can still recall my late Father, reading out the stories from Bernard Venables, Mr Willow and Toms adventures in the Creel magazine to me. I'm so glad I've still got the set...
Here's the first one, from July 1963.

[Jeremy Croxall]

Brilliant!

[Mole-Patrol]

The Creel was my favourite angling magazine. I would love to be able to find some old editions.

[Fredline]

I have had these fully bound editions for many years now. The are complete with all the front covers and inserted "freebies" which are often removed.

[Mole-Patrol]

You are a very lucky man

The Creel was published before I started fishing and I only came across them when a neighbour had a clear out round about 1969 and offered me a box full of fishing magazines. There were three different publications if I remember correctly and The Creel was my favourite one. Strange how even in my mid teens I was attracted to an earlier era regards fishing. I kept them until I left home around 1974 and they were passed on to someone else.

[RBTraditional]

Wonderful! That bridge looks suspiciously like Ibsley on the Hants Avon....with a bit of artistic licence....

[Dave Burr]

So evocative. BV managed to encapsulate every aspect of angling, he was a genius of inspiration. My grandfather had a tobacco pouch full of his work that had been cut out of the Daily Mirror newspapers. To sit with him as a boy and go through each story is still a very strong memory.

Thanks for posting this Michael.

[Pallenpool]

What a fine illustrator B.V was and the early works in the Creel magazine are some of his very best!

[Penninelad]

I subscribed from the beginning to the end of publication then threw them all away! Why?

[Liphook]

I've heard of Creel but haven't actually had a copy in my hands. Something else to add to the ever growing list of must have/reads