What was your first fishing book?
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What was your first fishing book?
This was the first book my father gave me when I was about 9 years old..the book stayed in print well into the sixties ..what was your first book can you remember?
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Confessions of a Carp Fisher....read it on Holiday.
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Begin Fishing With Uncle Bill
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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Re: What was your first fishing book?
It was Ken Whiteheads 'coarse fishing skills'. I took it to the bank with me and read it and re-read it a thousand times or more. I still have it somewhere.
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Favourite Swims, Fred J Taylor
Just one more cast love, and I'll be on me way home
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures and memories
Re: What was your first fishing book?
Crabtree was the first book of my own but I was already surrounded by my fathers fishing library.
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Mine was by the man John Wilson and called “The Complete Coarse Fisherman” it was new when I got it so I would have been around 12. I treated it as my bible for many years.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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Fishing for Roach with Mr Cherry and Jim passed on by Grand Father then at Christmas I had No Need to Lie by Dick Walker.
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I have fished since I was three years old so struggle to be sure what my first book was but this is one I remember. I recall gazing at those perch and imagining the boy was me.
It is still on my bookshelf
It is still on my bookshelf
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
The 1956 version of "Angling Ways" by E Marshall-Hardy, possibly for my 10th birthday.