On rivers with strong currents of deep water, like the Trent or the Lower Derwent and the Royalty fishery on the Hampshire Avon, we use floats that take a lot of shot so the bait gets down and stays down. Crabtree, in his fishing adventures with his son Peter, passed on not only his knowledge of angling, but his love and reverence for this great sport of ours. Peter is shown how to read the water, how and why a specific fish might be caught, and all the while the reader feels it first hand.

Mr Crabtree fishes for all species of coarse fish - tench, barbel, carp, chub, perch and pike - as well as trout and grayling. 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! 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? Due to the range of areas covered in this book it would be a lovely gift for any fisherman as no matter if they are an expert or a beginner there is something for everyone in this book.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 used to find a small redworm a very useful change bait for winter grayling which they sometimes absolutely hammered, and I never noticed any particular extra tendency to catch brownies, sea trout or salmon kelts when I used it. I am sure that there were originally thousands of pages worth of this material, but here we have barely a hundred if you count the covers. The artwork gives the book a sense of the present – the heart-rate quickens with the dip of the float or the flicker of the bread bobbin. Spine-strip slightly chipped as usual, slight creasing to cover but a good clean copy of the scarce first edition. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.Whether he was writing or painting he was able to capture the moment, set the scene and draw us in to his world and we felt the tingle of excitement every time we believed that we too could catch that tench or a big roach or feel the power of a hard fighting barbel. PUBLISHER : MIRROR FEATURES * YEAR : UNDATED * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 96 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND CREASED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH A STICKER PULL TO THE REAR. Mr Crabtree was serialized in comics in my youth, which is a long time ago, but even those must have been reprints.

Team Crabtree have almost re-invented the wheel with this insightful, beautifully written and delightfully illustrated modern masterpiece. Secondly, what is the casting technique he details and was it largely rendered obsolete with the coming of monofilimant lines and modern casting or spinning reels? Also the suggestion that tackle options was limited is correct as I'm certain the Wallis cast significantly predates the invention of Illingworth's Threadline reel. It is the comic strip story of a father who takes his son Peter on a series of angling adventures over the course of a year, fishing for a variety of species along the rivers and lakes of Britain. 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.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. As a child I spent many hours reading and re-reading this book in the dark winter nights, dreaming of spring and to catch a Tench! I'm sure that at the time (1949), a book of a hundred pages was a reasonable offering, but to simply reprint that when all of the other material is presumably preserved (since it was published in the Mirror from 1947 to 1949 and onwards and the Mirror is preserved) seems wasteful. He fished with all the great names of that generation, from Richard Walker to Charles Ritz, and from Fred J Taylor to Frank Sawyer. When fishing with light end tackle and a centrepin, it is best to draw line off between the rod rings using thumb, and fingers to get from one up to twenty yards of line drawn off to release when the cast is made.

This, added to the endless rereading which Mr Crabtree was always subjected to means that copies in good condition are hard to find - especially earlier editions. 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.John guides his young protégé with good sound advice and simple tackle and tactics; it’s a reminder that fishing isn’t all gadgets and fancy rigs. INSCRIPTION ON REVERSE OF FRONT COVER PRESENTING THIS BOOK TO FORMER OWNER, OTHERWISE IN VG CONDITION. Don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter if you want to be the first to know about everything we’ve got planned. Within these short story boards and accompanying chapters are superb snippets of river and water craft that we all could learn from and you can’t help but feel like a young lad again trying as hard as you could to catch that unseen monster. His weekly articles in the Mirror were not just a snap shot of angling but encompassed the passion, the excitement and the thrill of angling and the countryside.