CREEL: A FISHING MAGAZINE. Volume 4, number 1. July 1966.

July 1966 - Volume four, issue one. 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:- News and reviews; Two rods? - I use three!, Graham Igglesden puts a point of view that may annoy some; Rathlin Island - Leslie Moncrieff fishinig the wreck of a 14,000 ton warship; My Angel by E.L. Matthews; Two views on Grafham - Geoffrey Bucknall and Richard Walker - agreeing and differing about England's big trout water; 'Creel' boat review - the Romany 21 by Leslie Moncrieff; Rigs and tackles - Fred Buller preparing diced breadcrust; Confessions of a carp fishing - B.B. - 'The course of the affliction'; A woman may fish - Ian Gillespie interviews Margaret Perrett; Dead bait fishing for pike - Peter J. Howse suggests a new method for mounting hooks; East Anglian angle by Ian Gillespie; Bream among the hippopotamus - Bernard Venables goes fishing in Zambia; Sea column - in humorous and provocative mood by Clive Gammon; Doubting Thomas; Letters to the editor; Do salmon face extinction? by F.W. Holiday; In the steps of Lorna Doone - D.F. Curtin writes on the loach as livebait; Get down! by P. Hutton; The lesser cods by Prof. A.F. Magri Mac Mahon; Classified advertisements.