Mr. Crabtree Goes Fishing: A Guide in Pictures to Fishing Round the Year

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Of course, I've enjoyed reading this much more than Henry has, part of that is probably that we are still stating his age in months instead of years, but hey it's good to start reading to them at the earliest age, so may as well read something about fishing right? WITH COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE FAMILIAR B/W STRIP STORY TELLING STRAIGHT OUT OF THE OLF DAILY MIRROR FEATURE. Mr Crabtree was serialized in comics in my youth, which is a long time ago, but even those must have been reprints.

I don't think it's as difficult as the Pendulum cast that Beach anglers use and interestingly the motivation to learn both techniques is the same. John visits his friend and contemporary carp angler Alan Blair to talk about modern methods and to gauge where to start with Michael. Last year, 16th of June (openning day) Richard W and I spent a very early morning on a local pond, armed with split cane and centre pins in true Crabtree style, it takes me right back to my childhood! Anyway, being errrr, well, near 40, some of the techniques and tackle used in the book both predate me and/or they are different techniques than the men who thought me how to fish ever used.The method that JohnH describes is known as a Nottingham cast and is absolutly fine until you are required to cast any sort of real distance, that is when you wish you had learned to Wallis/Avon cast. I think to completely safeguard your offspring's heritage you should purchase a complete set of Bernard Venables' 'Lets Go Fishing with Mr Cherry and Jim' books ASAP, I know they are expensive but it's always better to be safe than sorry! I would much rather watch a float and the nature than sit in a bivy reading a book and waiting for a carp run. You learn the difference between bottom and top fishing, the weight of tackle for different fish and circumstances.

INSCRIPTION ON REVERSE OF FRONT COVER PRESENTING THIS BOOK TO FORMER OWNER, OTHERWISE IN VG CONDITION. One of his most memorable trips resulted in landing a 700 kilo (1,540lb) six-gilled shark in 1959 off Madeira, then the largest fish caught on rod and line in the northern hemisphere. Team Crabtree have almost re-invented the wheel with this insightful, beautifully written and delightfully illustrated modern masterpiece. Brief contributions from Hannah Bruford (Bernard Venables' daughter), Hugh Miles, Chris Yates, Pat O'Reilly, Terry Hearn, Kevin Nash, Kevin Clifford, Ali Hamidi and Keith Arthur. It was an immediate success and developed into a fishing page, with Bernard as the angling correspondent.The Royalty remains one of the most popular and prolific Barbel fisheries in England, although amazingly The Hampshire Avon in it's lower reaches does contain more than one species! I used a single jointed Dapper Dan coloured like a small perch to good effect for autumn pike in a Thames Valley gravel pit many years ago. This, added to the endless rereading which Mr Crabtree was/is always subjected to means that copies in good condition are hard to find - especially earlier editions.

Faithful to the feel of the early printings, this book evokes excesses of nostalgia in the over-forties, and remains of great practical use to beginners. It inspired a whole generation to pick up a rod and try to emulate the success of Mr Crabtree and his son Peter.But he was working for the Daily Mirror as its angling correspondent when he wrote 'Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing*'*. Each time I read it I was taken back to a time when, as a small boy who didn't have the means to take himself fishing, my passion for fishing was mostly lived out through my imagination and the written words of others. OK, the plug on the far left looks just like a Flatfish which is a classic plug made by Heddon in the USA and I still fish with them, in fact.