CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 3, number 2. August 1965.

August 1965 - Volume three, issue two. 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 visits Porthcurnow by Clive Gammon; Bass in the fog by Des Brennan; A new approach to reservoir fly fishing by Geoffrey Bucknall; The Thame and its chub by Jonathan Webb; The link leger by Peter Wheat; With the specimen hunters; Thornbacks - and the beachcaster by Ernest Merritt; Letters to the editor; The Huntspill River and King Sedgemoor Drain by L.G. Gough; For your bookshelf; Pollack and coalfish - the troublesome twins by Prof. A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; Companion of the night by Ewan Clarkson; Wonderful char of Greenland by Nils Farnstrom; Creel Junior Field Club - mouths speak for themselves by Prof. A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; Hawsker by Frank Dixey; Night fishing for sea trout by V. Teige O'Donovan; Classified advertisements.