Issue 19 - Dec 1999 / January 2000
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Contents

Pike's Christmas - Robert Strand   4
Tom Fort - with a message for the PM   6
How to be a Hackle Herder - Tom Whiting
   on roosters, feathers and how to get one
      off the other   8
Tackle Auction News   10
A Severe absence of Fish - Andrew Motion   11
The Magic Creel - Old and new angling gifts   12
Flotsam and Jetsam   14
The Upper Thames - A Letter from the Upper
   Thames Protection Society   15
Desperados of the Sierra San Pedro - The
   further adventures of R. K. Moore
       and Shad 69   17
The Waterlog - Chris Yates   21
Fishing in the 90s - Mr C.   22
Ginifer's Ramblings - John Ginifer   24
The Diary of Vernon the Roach - V. Roach   27
Up North - John Kynaston takes a little trip
   to Norway   28
Bernard Venables   33
Coming up for Air: Things you probably didn't
   know about George Orwell - Brian Edwards   36
Fat Alert - Will Shaw has the answer to the
   great cultural divide  WAAAHOO!   41
Cover that Rise - Robert Gaffney   44
An Anyonymous Barber Story -
   Edward Barber doesn't have an answer,
       but a horseshoe will do   46
Mrs Walton's Cookbook   48
Extracts from an Angler's Library
   - Phil McWilliams   50
For Love of the Iron Blue - Sydney Vines   52
In Praise of Green Peter - Betty Hayes   53
Subscriptions and Watering Holes   55
Chris Sandford  57
Letters   58
Books   60
In t' Net - A whizz round the electronic
   angling world   61
Creaking Cane - The angler's market   62
Crossword - Dave Park   63
Back Issues & Obituaries and Accolades   64