"BB's birthday"
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:19 am
"BB" was born on this day in 1905, he was was one of the most influential British fishing authors of the 20 th century.
"Confessions of a Carp Fisher" is still one of my favorite fishing books. I don't think that any other book has come close to capturing the magic of the early days of carp fishing.
I still have my copy from 1973 that my sister got me as a Christmas present. I used to see it in the bookcase at Ashpoles of Islington and I longed to have a copy. My sister knew this and got it for me, I read it over the Christmas holidays and was totally hooked.
A big thank you "BB".
"Confessions of a Carp Fisher" is still one of my favorite fishing books. I don't think that any other book has come close to capturing the magic of the early days of carp fishing.
I still have my copy from 1973 that my sister got me as a Christmas present. I used to see it in the bookcase at Ashpoles of Islington and I longed to have a copy. My sister knew this and got it for me, I read it over the Christmas holidays and was totally hooked.
A big thank you "BB".
...but I simply love the lines in his excellent book 'Confessions of a Carp Fisher' ... "I believe there are some who fish for nothing but gudgeon. (Gudgeon scratching used to be a popular pastime on the Thames when anglers wore blazers and straw hats.) All are river men and rather nice, fond of summer evenings and camp sheathings, willows and weedy scented weirs, and a tall glass of ale at the day's end. They (the gudgeon snatchers) are, I think, a partly vanished race."