Issue 16 - June / July 1999
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Contents
Opening Day - Tom Fort favours light olives
and snoozing 4
Strangers in the Night: Fishing for sea-trout
- Nigel Ling 6
Bone Island - John Bailey after Bahaman
bonefish 8
The Magic Creel - Floats 13
Flotsam & Jetsam 14
Basket Case: Are you one? - R.K. Moore 17
Tackle Auction news 19
The Waterlog - Chris Yates 21
Fishing in the 90s Mr C. 22
Ginifer’s Ramblings - John Ginifer 29
Still Glides the Stream: William Wordsworth
poet and angler - Keith Harwood 24
The Diary of Vernon the Roach - V. Roach 31
Slowly Down the River: The best Thames pubs
- Edward Barder 33
A Hard Dace Night: The perilous life-cyle of
chalkstream dace - Stuart Clough 37
Pednvadan Pollack Pie - Nigel Haywood fly fishes
for Pollack in Cornwall 40
Bernard Venables 44
The Great Debate. Three essays on the close season:
- W. Lucy gives the history behind its establishment
- Barrie Rickards argues for its abolition
- Peter Stone makes a plea for it to be retained 46
A Few Words with Grogan - James Hill, an Irishman,
a blowlamp and a rusty bicycle 50
Extracts from an Angler’s Library - Phil McWilliams
reveals one of his favourite books 52
Subscriptions 54
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook 55
Fisherman’s Friends - Richard Smith 56
You Can’t be Serious - Chris Sandford 57
Letters 58
Watering Holes 59
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
Contents
Opening Day - Tom Fort favours light olives
and snoozing 4
Strangers in the Night: Fishing for sea-trout
- Nigel Ling 6
Bone Island - John Bailey after Bahaman
bonefish 8
The Magic Creel - Floats 13
Flotsam & Jetsam 14
Basket Case: Are you one? - R.K. Moore 17
Tackle Auction news 19
The Waterlog - Chris Yates 21
Fishing in the 90s Mr C. 22
Ginifer’s Ramblings - John Ginifer 29
Still Glides the Stream: William Wordsworth
poet and angler - Keith Harwood 24
The Diary of Vernon the Roach - V. Roach 31
Slowly Down the River: The best Thames pubs
- Edward Barder 33
A Hard Dace Night: The perilous life-cyle of
chalkstream dace - Stuart Clough 37
Pednvadan Pollack Pie - Nigel Haywood fly fishes
for Pollack in Cornwall 40
Bernard Venables 44
The Great Debate. Three essays on the close season:
- W. Lucy gives the history behind its establishment
- Barrie Rickards argues for its abolition
- Peter Stone makes a plea for it to be retained 46
A Few Words with Grogan - James Hill, an Irishman,
a blowlamp and a rusty bicycle 50
Extracts from an Angler’s Library - Phil McWilliams
reveals one of his favourite books 52
Subscriptions 54
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook 55
Fisherman’s Friends - Richard Smith 56
You Can’t be Serious - Chris Sandford 57
Letters 58
Watering Holes 59
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