CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 3, number 10. April 1966.

April 1966 - Volume three, issue ten. 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; Tune in to your trout by Kenneth Morris; Catch a Thames trout by Jonathan Webb; Letters to the editor; In pursuit of the silver lady by E. Meadowcroft; Doubting Thomas; Sportsman's shopping guide; Creel Junior Field Club by Prof. A.F. Magri MacMahon; The thrills of free-range fishing by Harry Tallent; Haddock and whiting by Prof. A.F. Magri MacMahon; Sea column by Clive Gammon; One man's opinion by Peter Wheat; The best anglers by Fred Buller; Felixstow by Ian Gillespie; The predator and the angler by Winston Hall; Out from Newhaven by John Nixon; Anything can happen... out deep by E.L. Matthews; Light devons on the Boyne by Edgar Roche Kelly; The novice angler in the tropics by M.B. Lonergan; Early season at Eyebrook by P.D. Howse; For your bookshelf; Classified advertisements.