Issue 1 - Dec 1996 / January 1997
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Contents
Bubbles: The rise and fall of the spirit of angling
- Richard Walker 4
Casts Into a Political Pool: Problems facing the
new Environment Agency - Mark Walsingham 6
Skate Expectations: A trip to the isles
- Maurice Ingham 9
The Waterlog - Chis Yates 12
Ginifer’s Ramblings - John Ginifer 14
Thunder and Eels: The glory of these most
undesirable fish. And how to cook them
- Tom Fort 16
Bernard Venables - The grand old man of angling
speaks out 18
The Diary of Vernon the Roach - V. Roach 20
The Ruffe End of a Big Stick: Tales of the
Shad ‘69 - R. K. Moore 22
A Pair of Sevens: A lovely brace of Avon barbel,
after ten years of failure - John Kynaston 25
Ians’ Damp Patch - Ian A.H. 25
My Favourite Fishing Story - Jeremy Paxman 27
The Key to the Madhouse: There’s no such thing as
one last cast - Chris Yates 29
Pike in Narnia Or I was shot at whilst pike fishing
in C. S. Lewis’ garden - Peter Stone 32
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook - Christmas Carp 37
Ned: A Christmas ghost story - BB 38
Wolfherrings: A whingeing pom shows how to
catch this mysterious fish - Nigel Parker 40
Water under the Bridge - Anthony Hayter 43
A Fishy Affair - Anton Chekhov 46
The Chub Catcher’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer 47
Brown Herbert: Trout stalking in an invisible
ginger knitted cat suit - Edward Barder 49
Wish You Were Here: Collecting angling
postcards - Derek Mills 52
A Scientist Writes - Professor Eugene Plumb 55
Colin’s Float Competition - Colin Whitehouse 61
The Great Illustrators - Thomas Bewick 62
In t’ Net - A wizz round the electronic
angling world 64
Obituaries 64
Contents
Bubbles: The rise and fall of the spirit of angling
- Richard Walker 4
Casts Into a Political Pool: Problems facing the
new Environment Agency - Mark Walsingham 6
Skate Expectations: A trip to the isles
- Maurice Ingham 9
The Waterlog - Chis Yates 12
Ginifer’s Ramblings - John Ginifer 14
Thunder and Eels: The glory of these most
undesirable fish. And how to cook them
- Tom Fort 16
Bernard Venables - The grand old man of angling
speaks out 18
The Diary of Vernon the Roach - V. Roach 20
The Ruffe End of a Big Stick: Tales of the
Shad ‘69 - R. K. Moore 22
A Pair of Sevens: A lovely brace of Avon barbel,
after ten years of failure - John Kynaston 25
Ians’ Damp Patch - Ian A.H. 25
My Favourite Fishing Story - Jeremy Paxman 27
The Key to the Madhouse: There’s no such thing as
one last cast - Chris Yates 29
Pike in Narnia Or I was shot at whilst pike fishing
in C. S. Lewis’ garden - Peter Stone 32
Mrs Walton’s Cookbook - Christmas Carp 37
Ned: A Christmas ghost story - BB 38
Wolfherrings: A whingeing pom shows how to
catch this mysterious fish - Nigel Parker 40
Water under the Bridge - Anthony Hayter 43
A Fishy Affair - Anton Chekhov 46
The Chub Catcher’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer 47
Brown Herbert: Trout stalking in an invisible
ginger knitted cat suit - Edward Barder 49
Wish You Were Here: Collecting angling
postcards - Derek Mills 52
A Scientist Writes - Professor Eugene Plumb 55
Colin’s Float Competition - Colin Whitehouse 61
The Great Illustrators - Thomas Bewick 62
In t’ Net - A wizz round the electronic
angling world 64
Obituaries 64