Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
One Long Morning
Which Fly, When
A Second-hand Book
A Shattered Dream
Wildlife, the Media and Us
All You Need to Know
Arthur Ransome
Coarse Fish on the Move
Buying Tackle
Dry Fly, Wet Fly, Nymph
Fun in the Grass
Arthur Oglesby
The Weakest Link
Always and Never
Barbless Hooks
Bernard Venables
The Power of the Close-up
Best Day, Worst Day
Big Noreen
Brain-boxes on Fins?
Frank Sawyer and Oliver Kite
The Man Who Dressed as a Tree
A Definition of the Impossible
The Beatrix Potter Syndrome
Fishing at Night
Flies, Hooks and Leaders
The Lady Gives it a Go
Fred Buller
Getting Stocking Levels Right
Stalking Fish on Lakes
Giving Logic a Chance
Chub, Dace, Roach, Barbel
Halford and the Dry Fly
John Goddard
Just Going Fishing
Life and Death in the Arctic
A Perfect Day
Making Fishing Too Easy
Morality Tale
Size and Relative Size
Reet Queer Trout
My Way with Carp
Need, Ego and Addiction
Grafham – and Alex Behrendt
Pig Eats Rod
Sex in Angling
Skues and the Nymph
Staying Silent and Still
Strike Indicators
Swans
Tench on a Fly
The Arte of Angling
Reading the Rise
The Boatman
The Dame and the Treatyse
The Dry Fly on Lakes
The Falklands
The Grannom and the Mayfly
The Hair Rig
The Itchy Wellie Factor
Francis Maximilian Walbran
The Otter
The Professor’s Big Trout
The Benefits of an Aquarium
Too Many Deaths
Which Fish Fights Hardest?
Promises, Promises
Champion of Champions
Yippee!
Faked Orgasms
Angling and the Future
Index
Acknowledgements
Other Books By
Copyright
About the Publisher
