CARPE SESSION: TECHNIQUE and PASSION. Edited by Stephane Gonzalez.

1995 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 216mm). Pp304. Colour photographs, colour cartoon illustrations by Benoit Vallade. Plain green cloth.

"For the first time in Europe, 23 carpistes have come together to pool their experiences and share them with the wider public. All these fishermen have got together to demonstrate that carping ideals are not dead, and that beyond our borders they have become stronger in the course of time, and with passing generations. ...Reading Carpe Session will confirm in the reader's mind that the esprit carpiste, more than ever, has a direction." Twenty-three anglers recount their experiences, their thinking and their techniques, with many good pictures. Contents and contributors include: Saga dans la sud, Georges Cortay; Pour le meilleur et pour le pire, par Didier Vincent; Matiere a rever, John Llewellyn; Un lac sans nom, Marc Westernberg; L'ete des sorcieres, Jim Gibbinson; La Vienne aux eaux brunes, Dominique Audigue; A la plume, Michel Mahin; Pelerinage a Redmire Pool, Andy Little; Les Reginas de Marco Polo, Thierry Dubrail; Carpus horribilis, Rod Hutchinson; Session mode d'emploi, Guy Commancais; Impressions du canal, Michael Flosdorf; Une session de 15 ans, Phillipe Mahin; Mon "Tour de France", Kevin Maddocks; Le cycle de vie, Achiel Stevens; Le Der en folie, Bernard Rivaux; Tracque camarguaise, Sebastien Rat; Silence et succes, Sasha Kral; Video Carpe, Massimo Mantovani; La quete du Saint Graal, Stephane Focone; Septembre au paradis, Ken Townley; Une annee en Orient, Stephane Gonzalez; Bienvenue en enfer, Phillipe Lagabe. Text in French. If you remember a bit of French from school and know carp fishing, this book should be fairly comprehensible.