First Edition, Excellent Condition, Printed 1986
In a muddy village pond a small boy called Christopher Yates discovered something more exciting and more magical than anything he'd read about in books. It was a great carp and it sparked a fire within him that would burn steadily for over thirty years. Naturally it turned him into an angler, a carp fisher, and he went on to catch a great many of these strange and beautiful fish. In 1972 he was invited to join the exclusive syndicate that fishes the country's premier carp water-Redmire Pool. It was here in 1980 that Christopher Yates landed a 51-pounder, not only the largest carp ever but also the biggest freshwater fish to be caught in Britain. In twenty-eight stories the author recounts the varied history of his fishing, from the time when he beheld the first carp-"like stumbling on a pit of dragons"- to the moment when the monster rolled into his landing net. In between come tales of magical lakes set in remote and forgoten landscapes, epic battles with unseen giants, mad expeditions in search of the ultimate carp water, haunted pools , old pubs, warm-hearted countrymen and the benign spirit of Izaak Walton. Not everything on the bankside is rosy, though, and there is one sad storey of an exquisite lake caught up in the march of progress. The writing is clear and graphic in style and the book as a whole has the atmosphere of the author's favourite kind of carp water: warm and summery but with a hint of the mysterious and the dramatic.
Price : £260.00
Email : sales@carpbookshop.com
In a muddy village pond a small boy called Christopher Yates discovered something more exciting and more magical than anything he'd read about in books. It was a great carp and it sparked a fire within him that would burn steadily for over thirty years. Naturally it turned him into an angler, a carp fisher, and he went on to catch a great many of these strange and beautiful fish. In 1972 he was invited to join the exclusive syndicate that fishes the country's premier carp water-Redmire Pool. It was here in 1980 that Christopher Yates landed a 51-pounder, not only the largest carp ever but also the biggest freshwater fish to be caught in Britain. In twenty-eight stories the author recounts the varied history of his fishing, from the time when he beheld the first carp-"like stumbling on a pit of dragons"- to the moment when the monster rolled into his landing net. In between come tales of magical lakes set in remote and forgoten landscapes, epic battles with unseen giants, mad expeditions in search of the ultimate carp water, haunted pools , old pubs, warm-hearted countrymen and the benign spirit of Izaak Walton. Not everything on the bankside is rosy, though, and there is one sad storey of an exquisite lake caught up in the march of progress. The writing is clear and graphic in style and the book as a whole has the atmosphere of the author's favourite kind of carp water: warm and summery but with a hint of the mysterious and the dramatic.
Price : £260.00
Email : sales@carpbookshop.com
