Benchmark Fishing Books !

[Ripple]

What book "did it for you" ?
What do you consider to be a truly "mind chaging/simulating" fishing book ?

For me it was "Redmire Pool" ! Published 1984. Picked it up and didnt stop reading it until I'd finished ! Then..................read it all again !

"Thee" Carp Anglers book !

Ripple.

[andystone]

'go fishing' john wilson, always been my hero!

[fishypaul]

there were many for me,
fishing for big pike by rickards and webb
pike by fred buller
the doomsday book of mammoth pike by fred buller
carp fever by kevin maddocks
the deepening pool by chris yates
the carp strikes back by rod hutchinson

all wonderful books i have read time and time again

[BoldBear]

Originally Posted by fishypaul

there were many for me,
fishing for big pike by rickards and webb
pike by fred buller
the doomsday book of mammoth pike by fred buller
carp fever by kevin maddocks
the deepening pool by chris yates
the carp strikes back by rod hutchinson

all wonderful books i have read time and time again

I have all of the above books except for 'The Carp Strikes Back' and they are all great books.
You could also add ‘Fishing for big Tench’ also by Barrie Rickards and Ray Webb to the list and ‘Carp Fishing’ by Rod Hutchinson which came out a few weeks after maddocks great book.

However the first writings that I remember reading as a boy which instilled my lifetime fascination in angling was the Mr Crabtree cartoon strips.

‘Still water Angling by Richard Walker’ and ‘Confessions of a Carp Fisher’ by BB (Denys Watkins Pitchford) where also favourite books that I used to read over and over again.

I have around a hundred angling books in my bookcase and it is hard for me to pick out the best ones but the above three cartoons/books stand out most in my memory and where the ones that got me hooked on angling.

[lazy hooker]

Originally Posted by BoldBear

However the first writings that I remember reading as a boy which instilled my lifetime fascination in angling was the Mr Crabtree cartoon strips.

Me too. That is THE book that got me into fishing, was given to me by my neighbour who fly fished.

I still have it too!! 1960's edition so must have been 20 years old when it was given to me

[Ripple]

All the above mentioned books were/are great reads. There are a few there I'd forgot about.

Makes you want to re-visit your bookshelf !

I chose "Redmire Pool" because as a young lad in the mid-sixties reading Angling Times, I'd see these reports of Roger Bowskill's catches at Redmire (one of which was to become Yates's "51") and of course at that time no one knew where the place was let alone ever fishing it ! And as we now know Redmire was not its real name.
To us lowley anglers it may have well been on the Moon and probably was !

I never in a Million years thought I would ever fish it (eventually did three times) so in 84 when the book was published, all the mysteries were revealed particulary about the darker side of the "going-ons" down there.
To be fair though I was acquainted with a few anglers who had fished it in the 70's so some of the events were known to me.

Heady Days !

Ripple.