I was Chairman of the Board of Farlows when the original Pattern Books spurring this publication resurfaced and returned home... Read More
Poles Apart is published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books, and hit our shelves back in 2013. In our view, it remains one... Read More
The occasional rummage around in charity book shops turns up a treasure or two and so it was a month... Read More
What’s not to like about this book? It has been conceived and brought to fruition by Rod Sturdy and Nathan... Read More
Here at Thomas Turner we are looking forward to a meeting with Jonathan White in a few days. He is,... Read More
(This article originally appeared in Classic Angling Magazine) A unique book featuring sketches by Charles Farlow has turned up in a provincial UK auction.... Read More
What the book cover says: This book traces the history of salmon fishing on the river Thurso in Scotland from... Read More
Looking for a Christmas present for a fishing pal of taste and discretion? Or yourself, come to that? Well, I’ve... Read More
Subtitled - "A Life Amongst Fishes and Those Who Catch Them", this book from Test river-keeper Martin "Donny" Donovan", is a collection of amusing and delightful anecdotes from a lifetime spent living around and working on the river, sprinkled with encounters of the various characters met along the way. Read More
They Say This second edition of Joan Wulff’s New Fly-Casting Techniques has been comprehensively updated with new content, illustrations, photographs... Read More
What a year unfolding for Wild River Press. At BookExpo America 2011 in New York, A Passion for Tarpon by Andy Mill won not one but TWO Benjamin Franklin Awards from the 3,200-member Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest such trade organization in the world.
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The Tug is The Drug by Chris Santella They Say “These thirty-seven stories take readers from leaping makos near the... Read More
First published in 1997, Matching the Hatch has been “completely revised and updated” according to the cover text and now re-issued... Read More
Edited by Peter Wheat Published by Frederick Warne, 1967. 18/- (90p) There are many copies of this seminal book on... Read More
Read all about it! A new publication explores the past, present and future of the world’s most prestigious angling and country pursuits store. Read More
Countless days and nights in earnest pursuit of specimen ‘coarse’ fish brought Private Eye cartoonist and life-long angler Cliff Hatton... Read More
As we all know, angling is special in part because of its vastly rich literary history. There is no other... Read More
www.avonroachproject.co.uk A book review should be objective and the reviewer should be as invisible as possible. However, in the case... Read More
Illustrated by Marvin Huggins. First published 2020. Available from Amazon at around £9.50 pp164 A strange one this. It is... Read More
“Once in a while a book comes along that you just want to keep on reading. This for me anyway... Read More
What the Publishers Say First ever photographic and illustrated guide to the unusual and beautiful feathers used in salmon fly... Read More