CARP ALONG THE WAY. VOLUME TWO. INTO THE NINETIES... By Rod Hutchinson.

2009 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 217mm). Pp304. Colour and b/w photographs, colour illustration. Red boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"The first volume of Rod's Ramblings - aka Carp Along the Way, a sort of autobiography - ended with Rod speeding down to Savay in the early '80's...". Volume two takes up where volume one left off, describing Rod Hutchinson's carp fishing career through the eighties and nineties "although dates don't really matter." The background to volume two is formed by "his two great eighties books The Carp Strikes Back and Carp Now and Then. Rod was at his most prolific fishing-wise and writing-wise during that decade and the material here [fills in the background to it]. What with having a home life, running a business and creating Woldview [his famous syndicate water], it is remarkable that Rod found time for trips down south and abroad..." The author explains how he did it all and retells countless anecdotes of his adventures from this period. Chapters include: 1985 interview; A dream come true; Wildies; Last month's TV; A day in the life; Woldview; Big un; A cappella (unaccompanied); New adventure, part one; New adventure, part two; Funny old year; More friends along the way; Ramblings of a man in panic; Crazy carp at St. Genez D'Olt; Sessions on Woldview; Still smelling the roses; Here we go again; Return to the valley; Every picture tells a story; Just mates; The Big O, and a squatter repellent; Glimpses of the past; Mally - first trip; What a man's gotta do; Shoot out at Crazy Jane's. The foreword is by Tim Paisley. A good book that is now, unfortunately, out-of-print.