Issue 6 - October / November 1997

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Contents

Wee Will’y  - Keith Elliot   5
Away with your Monstering: Size isn’t
   everything says - W. M. Hill   6
The Magic Creel - Good and not so
   good angling gifts   8
Necessary Daemons - David Profumo waxes
   teratological   11
Titans of the Thames: Tales of huge trout,
   bream and other things - Peter Stone   13
Flotsam & Jetsam   15
Fishing into the Future: Does a new
   governmant spell out new dangers for
        angling - Brian Clarke   17
Fishing in the 90s  - Mr Crabtree   18
The Waterlog  - Chris Yates   20
The Diary of Vernon the Roach    - V. Roach   25
Ginifer’s Ramblings  - John Ginifer   26
The Lure of the Lure - Chris Sandford on the
   joys of collecting artificial baits   28
Lost in France: The feminine touch on an
   epic angling expedition - Lindsey Armitage   32
A Royal Fish: The mighty sturgeon - Fred J Taylor   36
Rod-Crunchers of the Nile - Elie Godsie does
   battle with a huge african perch   39
Bernard Venables   41
Ian’s Damp Patch - Ian A.H.   43
A Traveller’s Tale: A few tench among the carp men
   - Peter Wheat   44
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook - Izaak’s Chub   48
Lilliputian Monsters: Scotland’s real giant pike
   - Edward Barder   49
Creaking Cane - Old tackle for sale or wanted   51
Catfish: The ugliest fish alive - Tom Fort   52
Talking Tough on Waterways  - David Bellamy   54
Awesome Wells:  The dangers of foreign imports
   - Nick Giles   55
Monsters in the Swamp Snot - Mark Walsingham   57
In t’ Net  - A whizz round the electronic
   angling world   60
Books   61
Letters   62
Subscriptions   63
Back Issues   64
Obituaries   64