Two New Books

[Pickerel]

If the picture shows an entry for a 'Spot the float' completion, the entrant has put his 'X' in the wrong place....

[Mr B]

It's interesting how it uses photographic perspective.

Yes, I thought that too.

"A Photographers eye"

And... yes spot the float... under seat!

I have the same float and as a matter of interest, lost my biggest fish ( had I landed it) using it.
I was around 13 with a new Intrepid Black Prince that I got for my birthday..
I had only used centerpins up until then.
I was fishing a land drain in Kent
It must have been a big Carp...had it on for a long time..
Long story... I threw the reel in the river and went back to centerpins!
Got my float back with a straitened hook.

Mr B.

[Bayleaf]

Interesting story, I lost my first big fish on the Boating Lake at Bedford. Similar tale, TruSpin reel with clutch wound too tight, carp or tench and ping!
As for a photographer's eye I've been taking photos since I was about 10 with a Kershaw folding 120 camera, now have a small collection of Exakta and Exa cameras and lenses.

[John Milford]

It's interesting how it uses photographic perspective.

Photographs from that perspective were popular with the angling mags for a while. (Perhaps they still are, as I don't buy them often?).

The 'staginess' of such photos always amuses me, as I cannot help but imagine the hapless photographer, up to his family jewels in the water, capturing the shot!

That illustration however is a beautifully evocative example of an artist's 'mind's eye'.