FENLAND PIKE
By Denis Moules and Mark Barrett
***DELUXE LEATHER-BOUND EDITION***
Some foxing / spotting to title-page and end-papers else fine.
Signed by both authors. Number 39 of only 50 leatherbound copies.
2009 1st edition. Deluxe issue. 4to (192 x 246mm). Pp264. Colour photographs throughout, colour and b/w illustrations. Fully bound in maroon leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt and with gilt pike design, marker ribbon. Issued without a slipcase. Edition limited to 50 individually numbered copies.
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A detailed account of pike fishing in the Fens. A popular and well-thought-of book designed and produced by Stephen Harper of Harper Fine Angling Books. Published in a trade edition (hardback in dust-wrapper) that was limited to 2000 copies and has now sold out with the authors. Fifty deluxe leather-bound copies were also produced, each signed by both authors and individually numbered. This is one of the leather copies.
Contents include:- Foreword by Cheryl Tomline; Introduction by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; What and where are the Fens? by Mark Barrett; The history of the Fens before the great adventure by Mark Barrett; The history of the Fens - the adventure begins by Mark Barrett; Early days by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; A Fenland piker begins his journey by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; This is how we do it - tackle and methods by Denis Moules; "And in the beginning..." - interviews with Professor Barrie Rickards, Bill Chillingworth and John McAngus; The Ouse System - Artery of the Fens, the Great Ouse by Mark Barrett; Sleeping giant - the Relief Channel by Mark Barrett; New arrival - the Cut-Off Channel by Steve Rodwell and Cheryl Tomline; Out of the shadows - the River Lark by Denis Moules and Paul Wilkanowski; Little by name? The Little Ouse by Denis Moules and Colin Hall; Fenland's forgotten river - the River Wissey by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; I know a place - the River Cam by Denis Moules; A misspent youth - the Old West River by Mark Barrett; 'Tommy' the bailiff by Denis Moules; The Middle Levels - A Fenland Mecca - the Middle Level Main Drain by Mark Barrett; The 'hard drain' - the Forty-Foot by Denis Moules and Richard Wesley; The 'harder drain' - the Sixteen-Foot by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; Just to confuse you - Delph, Old Bedford, Hundred-Foot and Counterwash by Denis Moules, Mark Barrett and Mick Tarry; The Gallic touch - Popham's Eau (west) and Well Creek by Denis Moules; Twenty by name - the Twenty-Foot by Mark Barrett; More than a match - the Old River Nene by Denis Moules and Mark Barrett; And There's More - Over-looked and under-rated - the land-drains by Denis Moules; Ancient and mysterious - the Cambridgeshire lodes by Denis Moules; Now for something completely different! Fly fishing the Fens for pike by Colin Brett; The Fens afloat by Andy Blazey; Saving the best till last - my Fenland thirty by Denis Moules.