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Hook, Line & Spinner by Clive Gammon |
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Angling
is not an easy subject to write about; the pages are apt to become clogged
with dull technicalities or, worse still, to appear self-consciously
embarrassingly whimsical.
In his first book Clive Gammon avoids both these pitfalls with unerring
gusto. Though he devotes a chapter to the technique of fishing for pike
which he demonstrates in a fresh, lively and expert manner, this is not an
instructional manual. His method is discursive, anecdotal-but never
impractical. He conveys the delight and excitement of angling, not in an
abstract way, but through stories of fishes and places.
The fishes in this book are mainly the (ineptly
named) coarse ones — the Pike and the Tench especially, though there is
a certain amount about trout and sea-trout. He writes effectively about
his early infatuation with pike and about battles with some particularly
heavy specimens; about Victorian fishing authors and changes of fashions
in angling; about the acquisition of the fishing rights of a lake in
Pembrokeshire that one day may well produce a record pike; about
catching sea-trout from little rivers in Carmarthenshire, trying to
defeat a monster Tench, and so on. . .
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This classic title, Hook, Line and Spinner,
written by Clive Gammon in the late fifties has now being republished by
the Little Egret Press.
From the original, this new edition has been completely re-set, with
illustrations by Tom O’Reilly added to it, as well as keeping the
original photographs. The dust wrapper has been re-drawn and
re-worked and with a new Foreword and Introduction by Clive Gammon, it
is a welcome edition to the Little Egret Press’ list.
Hook, Line and Spinner is a limited edition of just 570 copies, of which
30 are fully bound in leather.
It will be signed by the
publisher and illustrator, Tom O'Reilly
The
full leather bindings are bound in black Oasis goatskin, with gold tooled
front boards and spine design, gilded fore
edges and blind embossed back board, slip cased, with head-bands and
marker ribbon.
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Full Leather Bound
£ 135.00 plus P
& P (Only 2 per customer)
IN STOCK
Cloth Bound with Dust-wrapper £ 19.95 plus P & P
IN STOCK
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