CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 1, number 3. September 1963.

September 1963 - Volume one, issue three. 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 Junior Field Club; What to see in September by Professor Magri Mac Mahon; Tench by Eric Thomas; In pursuit of the true dolphin by Ralph R. Whitaker; Bernard Venables goes fishing; Fine fishing for barbel by Lloyd Gladstone Gough; One Irish lough; By night for sea trout? (Part two) by R.V. Righyni; Sea analysis; A revolutionary rod for the sea angler; I am a wormer by R. Rickard; Peter Pickerel; The roach by Bernard Venables (colour feature); Roach - the running water way by Ken Baker; Roach - the still water way by Ron Hayes; Morning in paradise by B.B; River carp by Raymond Perrett; The grey backs are running by Fred Gleave; Consider the sedge flies - colour feature; Norfolk and Suffolk sea angling by Harry Tallent; Casting - illustrated feature; Pollack - colour feature; Pollack off the south Cornish coast by Wing Comdr. G.E. Ranson; They live with noise by Robert Kennedy; No tears with outboards (Part two) by I. Souter Clarence; Creel competition - first results; The old man and the river by Ken Seaman; Big eel in the morning by P.J. Hodge; Kenya - paradise for fishermen by Anthony J. Pearson; Look again at the otter by Richard Fitter; Those lonely islands by James Wood; What is a peeler crab? by Ron Edwards; When a pike passes his prime by C.J. Bell; Sea column by Clive Gammon; Mr. Willows; Groundbait by Leslie Brewer; When the bream are rolling by F. Taylor; River analysis; Photography column by Michael Prichard; Tackle reviews.