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My late grandfather who took me fishing (alas, not often enough) had this book in his shelf, and on family visits I would sit and read the cartoons while the adults talked over my head. I read it with absolute wonder. Years later, as an adult trying I suppose to recapture a bit of lost youth I searched all over for a copy (before the internet), eventually finding a battered specimen in Ross on Wye. And now its back in print-probably because of people like me searching so hard!
The drawings are perfect,drawn with art, movement and affection. Mr Crabtree is wise, confident and a strict but patient and kindly teacher of the boy Peter. I wish my dad had been like Mr Crabtree, alas he had no interest in fishing.
The watercolours of the fish are matchless, my favourite is the perch. A lot of the advice is dated (for example using treble hooks for carp) but I have used the techniques, and some of the tackle (eg cane rods and centre pin reels) and they still work.
There is a passage about the way the float can dither and slowly slide away when the tench are bubbling, and in fact the day I caught my first tench the float behaved exactly like is says in this book.
A nostalgic book about 'halcyon days' to take the honest and the frustrated angler to an English dreamland of pikey rivers, shoals of perch and bream, carp that pull off 20 yards of line, dace dashing at a dry fly, cane rods and Aerial reels and red floats for tench on 'the glorious 16th' that may perhaps never have existed but jolly well ought to have.
As a child I was mad about fishing and I blame this book for that. The watercolours are so evocative of the British countryside and its wildlife and delight fishermen and non fishermen alike. It evokes a simpler time and an England long gone.
As a child I spent many hours reading and re-reading this book in the dark winter nights, dreaming of spring and to catch a Tench!
The tackle portrayed is now very outdated but the methods still stand up.
Get a copy! I've just ordered one for my 7 year old nephew so as to carry on the tradition.
It brought back many happy memories.
My brothers and I had discovered fishing and we would spend numberless luckless hours on... Read more
ps amazon were is me copy sent 20 08 09
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