CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 2, number 8. February 1965.

February 1965 - Volume two, issue eight. 4to stapled paperback (216 x 277mm). Pp38. 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:- Creel diary; Sea column by Clive Gammon; Mixed bag by Ewan Clarkson; White roach and gillaroo trout by E.V. Malone; About this pike by Frans Domhof; Look to the ant by Henry Holmes; Keeping them dry by William Mulholland; North country grayling time (colour feature) by Arthur Oglesby; Mullet mania by J.F. O'Shea; Thames bream by Lloyd Gladstone Gough; Stranger on Hickling by Harry Tallent and Fred Buller; Egyptian interlude - Leslie Moncrieff fishes the Red Sea; Chub in the night by Dennis Wilkinson; Book reviews; Sportsman's shopping guide; Letters to the editor; Spring salmon on the Bandon by John Hudson; Land of the carp - Ted Jones angling in Israel; Fishermen's boats - 1, The Poole Punt by I. Souter Clarence; Classified advertisements.