CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 3, number 6. December 1965.

December 1965 - Volume three, issue six. 4to stapled paperback (216 x 277mm). Pp34. 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:- Diary; A report on the National by L.G. Gough; Ban the banners by J.D. Brayshaw; Beating the crowd problem by Peter Wheat; The fabulous tope of New Quay by J. Nixon and Denis Wilkinson; You can go farther by E.L. Matthews; On making a net by Lewis Harris; Sea column by Clive Gammon; The salmon's poor relations - the chars by Prof. A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; For your bookshelf; Sportsman's shopping guide; European sea angling championships (picture feature) by Michael Prichard; Letters to the editor; With the specimen hunters; Fishing for giant grouper - Leslie Moncrieff in Gibraltar; The art of keeping warm and dry; It pays to be unorthodox by Winston Hall; The unpredictable pike by John Nixon; Creel Junior Field Club - going places; Pattern, presentation and predation by Kenneth Morris; Classified advertisements.