CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 2, number 4. October 1964.

October 1964 - Volume two, issue four. 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; This was a queer fishing day by E. Tuck; Pike: Preserve them? Destroy them? by M.J. Richardson; The Stour, Dorset's river by Lloyd Gladstone Gough; Morality and angling by Kenneth Morris; The cod come to East Anglia in autumn by Harry Tallent; Revolution in rods by M.M. Seuffert; Here is a river - Professor A.F. Magri Mac Mahon enquires into its ecology; Mr. Willows; Creel competition; What to see in October; Skates they are long-nosed, rays they are short-nosed by Professor A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; Bass, bass, bass by Thomas J. O'Byrne; Tongariro by Tony Orman; Saltwater prologue; Sea column by Clive Gammon; An addiction to big trout by Timothy Cronin; The engrossing circle will be finished again.