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just received today what is historic book red letter days it has two pen and ink drawings by john searl in it one of bernard venables and on with swim full of barbel and chub and pike it was given to les aves not sure who is could any one en lighten me on here who he is. it also signed by bernard venables chris yates peter stone and many more there isn't many who contributed to the book who didn't sign it it is a wonderfull book that i will treasure
ill try and put some photos up

this is one of drawings

tiny pics does seem to work

copy and paste the link it gives you [ img xxxxx [/img] after you've browsed for your pic and pressed upload, I've found that if you copy and paste the link starting with [img onto the page and then submit it works.

Hope this helps

Matt

Les Aves originates from Newbury Park, Essex but due to the regular long journey to fish the Wessex rivers decided to up sticks and move to Fordingbridge he did run a very good B&B for anglers. I stayed with him several times during '94 and had a great time, decent food, accommodation and great conversation.

This picture was from our Red Letter Days book signing day 28 years ago.

Back Row left to right
1 Bruce Vaughan
2 John Everard
3 Charlie Landells (not one of the authors or illustrators)
4 Peter Garvan
5 Tim Marks
6 Mick Brown
7 Pete Reading
8 Len Head
9 Tony Miles
10 Dave Williams

Middle Row left to right
11 Dave Steuart
12 Dave Howes
13 Martin James
14 Fred Sykes
15 Len Arbury
16 Pete Springate
17 Phil Smith
18 Peter Stone
19 Frank Gutfield
20 Chris Ball
21 Bob James
22 John Watson

Front row left to right (crouching)
23 Mark McKeown
24 Roger Miller
25 John Searl
26 Bernard Venables
27 Pete Rogers
28 Chris Yates
29 Shaun Harrison
30 Nigel Witham

Thats interesting Shaun, I immediately recognised a good few on there including my friend Martin, BV, Mick Brown, Len Head etc

Did you by any chance know John Watson well?

I only met him a hand full of times. Always spoke, but I didn't know him well. We used to write in one of the David Hall magazines at the same time. That was how he introduced himself to me although I knew who he was. He had been fishing with Mick Brown on the same complex on a pit next door to where I was fishing and made time to come over and introduce himself, which I thought was real nice.

One of my favourite books of all time !!!!!!