CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 1, number 1. July 1963.

July 1963 - Volume one, issue one. 4to stapled paperback (216 x 277mm). Pp64. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations.

Founded and originally edited by Bernard Venables, illustrated with colour photographs, mainly by Michael Prichard, and with illustrations by Venables and others, Creel was, and still is, the most highly respected angling journal. It attracted the best writers whose style and ethos are still admired today. Venables is listed on the title-page as Editor until December 1964, then from February 1965 onwards John Nixon is given as Editor and Michael Prichard as Art Editor. (Prichard was mentioned as Photographer and Art Editor from the very first issue, but did not make it to the title-page until after Venables had left). Contents of this issue include:- Leader; Creel diary; Creel contest; Fishing the upstream worm by William Watmough; Sea column by Clive Gammon; Kennet barbel? by Leslie Brewer; Salmon on the fly by R.V. Righyni; Bernard Venables goes fishing; Dapping for big fish - Scottish version by J. Johnston Mann; Tunny in the Bahamas by Ralph Whitaker; The chub - colour feature; Look again at the heron by Richard Fitter; The fishing of Dungeness by Leslie Moncrieff; North where the big fish run by Ralph Hedlin; The medium olive - colour feature; The Avon by L. Gladstone Gough; Where fish once swam by Tony Brenna; Casting - illustrated feature; Salmon minnows by Fred Gleave; Silkweed carnival by Robin Murrell; Suffolk codling by Roy Denny; Mr. Willows; Peter Pickerel - gossip column; Coarse fish in Yorkshire, the Swale by F.W. Sharpe; Man taketh away by Tony Brenna; Photography by Michael Prichard; Book reviews; Sea analysis; River analysis; The water sheep by Frank Fortey; New horizons; Waterside risks by John Gaselee; Tackle reviews.