CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 1, number 4. October 1963.

October 1963 - Volume one, issue four. 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; Turbot on the sandbanks by Leslie Moncrieff; Suede shoes and sea trout by P.J. Hodge; The great perch of Oulton Broad by Harry Tallent; Try fly for a change by James Wood; Grayling, 'The Lady of the River' (colour feature) - by Bernard Venables, R.V. Righyni and Lloyd Gladstone Gough; The pleasure angler by John Moore; Greased line on the Avon by Lt. Col. S.H. Crow; Bernard Venables goes fishing; Death of a world record by Ralph R. Whitaker; Sea column visits a western bay by Clive Gammon; Chub, a winter fish for me by Frank Guttfield; Fisherman's Lapland by Timothy Pont; Novice's luck by A.N. Ballard; Autumn codling by Winston Hall; Fishing in Snowdonia by Ian Niall; Peter Pickerel; What to see in October by Professor A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; Hunting the halibut by Edward S. Walker; Broadland bream by Ralph Glenton; Controller in Kent by Alan Pearson; Autumn salmon by Michael Shepley; Discovery on Strangford Lough by Peter McMullen; Coquet mystery by Marshall W. Hall; Sea bream; Casting feature; A new salmon fly? by R.V. Righyni; Sea analysis; Mr. Willows; A theory of great pike; Creel competition; The old mill by Brian Bearfield; Chub on the Annan by Michael Frazer; River Analysis; Letters; Photography by Michael Prichard.