M Coote

The Perfect Companion., 9 Mar 2013

The perfect book to take with you to the waters edge
to help you make informed choices about which flies to use
and which flies not to use.
It not only provides this information it also gives you an indication
of what trout are feeding upon by observing their rise forms.
In addition to all this there are sections such as:

How and why trout take flies.
Life cycles of aquatic insects.
Trigger Points, trouts vision.
Plus detailed hatch charts for rivers and stillwaters.

It all adds up to this little book being an invaluble companion at the waterside.
I for one would not now be without it.

H.T. Sheringham - The Master at Work., 23 Feb 2013

Right from the outset the tone is set in this wonderful book.
The atmospheric "At Dawn of Day". opens with an experience
that every angler can identify with; being up when the rest of the household is asleep.
Rarely has a fisherman so elequently expressed the quietness exuded by bricks and mortar
and he goes on in fine form to culminatively add to this masterpeice with such gems as;
"May Day on the Exe", "A Brace of Tench", "A Miniature Trout Stream", "The Festival of the Green Drake",
"The Mystery of a Thames Salmon","The Midland Brook", and "A Surburban Fishery".
Sheringham hailed from a time when fishermen had other interests seperate from fishing and… Read more

The Sublime Sheringham., 16 Feb 2013

An Open Creel by H T Sheringham is without doubt one of the few fishing books that can be conceiveably called literature.
It has that easy conversational style so lamentably missing from modern treatments of the subject and moves through a variety of Chapters
as diverse as : Some Kennet Days.The Anglers Temper.The Float.Imperfect Sympathies The Philosophy of Failure.A Run of Luck and The Secret of the Canal
with an assured ease that speaks of a love of writing.
One reads Sheringham with the fire crackling on cold winter nights, in the imagination ,if not in actuality, sipping at a good brandy chuckling away to oneself
as if the man were there by your side and you… Read more