What was your first fishing book?
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GregF
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
I still have a few of the items shown on this thread including the Jonathan Webb Angling folder and the Fisherman's Handbook volumes 1 and 2. The first fishing book I read though was either Fishing with Mr. Crabtree in All Waters, or The Ladybird Book of Coarse Fishing. Can't remember which was first, it was 40 years ago now
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Badger
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"An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity" - Thomas McGuane
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Badger
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"An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity" - Thomas McGuane
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Loop Erimder
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Like Snape not my original book but I had to get a copy, great illustrations
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Mark
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Yes me too, I read this at school, I must have been 6 or 7.Loop Erimder wrote:Like Snape not my original book but I had to get a copy, great illustrations
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Badger wrote:
Same for me, probably around 1964, although at some point it disappeared and so I bought a new copy about ten years ago
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CrayCane
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Fred Bonney wrote:My first was The Angler's Handbook 1/-NET published by SPRATT'S
"Especially written forSPRATT'S by a well-known angling expert"
The one I have now is from 1958, my original fell apart with use.
I thought my edition said who the "expert" was, this one doesn't and the mists of time have blurred my memory!
Many thanks for that. I've been racking my brain to remember this one which was also my first angling book.
Pete
just found a copy on Abe-books. Should bring back a few memories
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CraigM
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Ladybird Book of Coarse Fishing; Observer Book of CF; my Grandfather's Mr Crabtree......
Still have them all & flick through them from time to time.
Still have them all & flick through them from time to time.
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McFairy
Re: What was your first fishing book?
The first dedicated fishing book I owned.
My 12 year old self received it as a Christmas present back in 1985 and I devoured it many times over.
It still sits in my fishing book collection almost 30 years later and with chapters from such luminaries as Peter Stone, Peter Wheat, Fred J Taylor, David Carl Forbes and Billy Lane I still dip into it now.
My 12 year old self received it as a Christmas present back in 1985 and I devoured it many times over.
It still sits in my fishing book collection almost 30 years later and with chapters from such luminaries as Peter Stone, Peter Wheat, Fred J Taylor, David Carl Forbes and Billy Lane I still dip into it now.
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Marc
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Re: What was your first fishing book?
Loop Erimder wrote:Like Snape not my original book but I had to get a copy, great illustrations
My copy of this arrived the other day. Just had to have it.
Marc. (Prince of Durham)
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