CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 2, number 3. September 1964.

September 1964 - Volume two, issue three. 4to stapled paperback (216 x 277mm). Pp46. 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; Bernard Venables goes fishing; Leslie Moncrieff, more of his terminal tackle; Return to Naivasha by Anthony J. Pearson; R.V. Righyni comes south to discovery; Sea column by Clive Gammon; A coarse fishing river - Professor A.F. Magri Mac Mahon analyses its biology; Creel competition; Three salmon in seven casts by V. Teige O' Donovan; What to see in September by Professor A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; The rainbows of Callow Lake - a report from Ireland; The trout that died in action by Peter Hodge; Mr. Willows; Book reviews; An unidentified piece of coast - analysed by Clive Gammon; Nature's clues by Maxwell Knight; When the bream are feeding on the Bure by Harry Tallent.