Issue 5 - August / September 1997
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Contents

To Catch a Rudd  - Allen Edwards   4
Bogged down in Weed: A disreputable Irish
   adventure - Andrew Brown   6
The Magic Creel - Good and not so good
   angling gifts   8
A Stranger in a Strange Land: Beguiled by
   beautiful waters - David Profumo   10
Flotsam & Jetsam   14
Nelson’s Column - Guido   15
Irish Monsters - The land of mind-boggling pike
   - David Phillips   17
Of Spirits, Pickling and a Dancing Rod: A night
   out with the ‘Perch Special’ - Peter Wheat    20
Ginifer’s Ramblings - John Ginifer   22
The Waterlog: The editors on a Grand Tour
   - Chris Yates   24
Ian’s Damp Patch - Ian A.H.   34
The Diary of Vernon the Roach    - V. Roach   36
Murgen Liban: Mermaid Saint of Ireland
   - R. K. Moore   39
Bernard Venables   43
King Cong: The river, the trout and the
   dry canal - Tom Fort   45
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook - Grilled Tench   48
Back to the Fuschia: Memories of Kerry
   and the Dingle - Nigel Haywood    49
Creaking Cane: Old tackle for sale or wanted   51
The Red Fellow: A uniquely Irish fish
   the gillaroo - Fred Buller   52
Dinkie: ‘A professional fisherman and ghillie.’
   - Andrew Herd   55
The Little People: A strange tale of the
   famine piers - Mike Thrussell   57
In t’ Net -  A whizz round the electronic
   angling world   60
Books   61
Letters   62
Subscriptions   63
Back Issues   64
Obituaries    64