A HISTORY OF PIKE FISHING. VOLUME II. By Graham Booth.

2014 1st edition. 4to (188 x 245mm). Pp275. Colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography. Burgundy boards, spine titled in gilt.

A History of Pike Fishing Volume 1 (our stock number 27388) covers pike fishing in great detail up to 1950. Volume 2 brings the story up to the present. Chapters include: The journey to the contemporary era, 1951-1971; The trumpet of a prophesy; The Pike Society and beyond; Ways and waters of the contemporary era, 1971 to the present; Trout-water pike; North of the border; Plain and hill - over the water; The story of lure fishing for pike; Of sport and trophies. Appendices include: Alfred Jardine's Maidstone pike; Dispute between Alfred Jardine, E.T. Sachs and others, over a Lough Conn pike; Lists, monsters and tall tales; Notes to the text. Designed and produced by Stephen Harper, only 450 copies of this edition have been printed. The dust-wrapper illustration of a pike among lilies is by David Miller.