Life Of A Chalkstream

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007547870
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of a Chalkstream written by Simon Cooper and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful book records a year in the life of an essentially English waterscape, one that is home to a vast array of wildlife and natural habitat of the keen angler – the chalkstream.

Author : Martin Donovan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983385707
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeper written by Martin Donovan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age fifteen, Martin "Donny" Donovan graduated from Testwood School in Southampton, England and set out on a ten-year odyssey of traveling the world, working odd jobs, and pining for an eventual means of returning home to the chalkstreams where he fished and explored as a child.Through connections and persistence he eventually worked his way into the exclusive niche of riverkeeping and landed a job working the Nursling beats on the famed River Test.Keeper, is Donovan's rollicking account of his antics abroad, and two decades of tending rivers, coddling fish, and guiding anglers. His stories are exceptional, but what ultimately sets them apart is Donovan's wry voice and his bracing departure from the stereotypical English fly-fishing memoir.With equal measures of passion, irreverence, and hilarity, he does a masterful job of salting a traditional setting with an oddball cast of characters, props, and predicaments. He introduces us to gentried English dry-fly purists and mobs of bait soaking carp-catchers. He writes about prominent London attorneys, cantankerous skinheads, redneck clock peddlers, and booze-swilling farmers. While fly-fishing for trout and salmon are Donovan's beloved diversions, he also has an eclectic fixation with derelict motorbikes, chainsaw carpentry, hitchhiking, canned beer, and curry houses.While some angling traditionalists may lament that all of the great stories have long-since been written about the English chalkstreams, we are proud to present an engaging addendum and a fresh new voice from the birthplace of fly fishing.

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008189722
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Otters’ Tale written by Simon Cooper and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2017 ‘The best popular account of the lives of otters written so far’ Richard Shelton, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Charles Ritz
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709058526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fly Fisher's Life written by Charles Ritz and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1996-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Charles Ritz reflects on rods, lines and other tackle as well as his famous method of fly-casting - High Speed, High Line - which is described in detail. The book is enriched with his reminiscences from the finest game-fishing waters of Europe and North America.

Author : Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448182107
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silt Road written by Charles Rangeley-Wilson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to. Captivated by the fate of this forgotten stream Charles Rangeley-Wilson sets out one winter’s day to uncover its story. Distilled into the timeless passage of the river’s flow, buried under the pavements that cover meadow, marsh and hill he finds dreamers and visionaries, a chronicle of paradises lost or never found, men who shaped the land and its history.

Author : Dick Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913012267
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chalk Streams written by Dick Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of evocative and atmospheric photographs taken by Dick Hawkes to create a representative record of this precious and ecologically unique habitat - before much of it is lost to the many threats it faces. Chalk streams have been described as England's "rainforest". Around 85% of the world's chalk streams are in England. They are beautiful, biologically distinct and amazingly rich in wildlife, but are under threat from man-made issues of abstraction, pollution from chemicals and effluent, development for housing, and climate change. Included in the book are images of typical habitats and species of wildlife found in chalk streams and water meadows, highlighting those that are rare or most under threat.

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008307059
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him written by Simon Cooper and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword. Of the twelve horses lined up on Newmarket Heath that 2011 day, one would do just that. And more. To become the greatest racehorse that has ever lived.

Author : Peter Lapsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906122201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Matching the Hatch written by Peter Lapsley and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little pocket book arms the angler with all the information he needs about the insects hatching on the water so he can select the right fly from his flybox.

Author : Ronald F. Lasko
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764344404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Rivers written by Ronald F. Lasko and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles fly fishing the Quashnet and Mashpee rivers for Cape Cod sea run brook trout, incorporating the author's personal experience along with practical how-to-instruction, and a discussion of historical, environmental, and ecological issues. --

Author : Tony Hayter
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780719810589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G.E.M. Skues written by Tony Hayter and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial biography of the man widely regarded as the most interesting and innovative fly fisherman of the 20th century, based on research into primary sources The most innovative fly-fishing angler of modern times, G. E. M. Skues spearheaded and near-singlehandedly developed the technique of below-surface fly-fishing for trout with nymphs. His pioneering example is now followed by anglers worldwide. During the six years of research and writing for this volume, Tony Hayter traveled widely in Europe and the U.S. to unearth a treasure trove of original and hitherto unpublished material, which throws new light on the life of this great man. Packed with fascinating detail, the book explores many hitherto unrevealed facets of Skues' life and for the first time sets into proper perspective his early clash with fishing author Frederic Halford, as well as his inevitable collision with the diehard dry-fly purists in 1938. Also detailed for the first time through voluminous unpublished correspondence is the major influence Skues had on anglers in Europe and the U.S., culminating in his election as an honorary life member of the New York Anglers Club in 1927. Vividly illustrated with photographs of people and places long gone and changed forever, this book will long stand as the definitive biography of Skues.