CANAL CARPING. By Rob Maylin and friends. In the "OFF THE BEATEN TRACK" series.

2015 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 216mm). Pp304. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations by Gareth Fareham. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Canal carping has become one of the fastest growing areas of carp fishing in recent years in the UK, not that there's anything new in carp fishing canals, as this book will soon prove. Some carp anglers have been fishing canals almost exclusively for decades, and of course canal carping in countries like Holland and Belgium is commonplace.. ..This book focuses on English canal carp angling with just a couple of examples of what is available if you wish to travel." Chapters include: Tactics and techniques - canal technical, by Danny Champion; The Royal Military Canal (Kent and Sussex) - a tale of two records, by Bill Phillips, the Town Stretch, by Ken South; The Chelmer and Blackwater Canal (Essex) - mystery and secrets, by Matt Lee, canal life, by Jade Martin, a whole new world, by Matt Lee; Canal catches; Cheshire Canal, by Lee Colford; The Dudley Canal - The Black Country Cut, by Josh Myatt, The Dudley Canal system, by Darren Dunn and Anthony Williamson, urban legends, by Craig McEvoy; The Sankey Canal (Lancashire really, now in Cheshire and Merseyside) - the unstable campaign, by Lee Colford; The South Holland Main Drain (Lincolnshire), by Liam Chapman; The Wyrley and Essington Canal (S. Staffordshire), by Neil Horton; The Grand Union Canal (London to Birmingham) - Grand carping, by Dan Cleary, Grand Union Canal cracker, by Dan Sibley, unknown possibilities, by Keith William, Colne Valley escapees, by Nick Helleur, Basingstoke Canal record, by Danny Champion; Overseas canal carping - a tale of three fifties, by Dan Cleary." A huge variety of canals with one common denominator - dedicated canal carpers!"