FINE LINE TO LUNACY. By Tom Bankes.

2023 1st edition. 4to (190 x 253mm). Pp325. Colour photographs throughout, b/w illustrations by the author, pictorial end-papers. Black boards, spine and upper board titled and decorated in silver-gilt.

'Fine Line to Lunacy' has been written for the carp fisher who has at times suffered from obsession. The chapters feature an enthusiastic spell of carp fishing made by the author between 1998 and 2010, where paths led to the most challenging of this country's stillwaters. These include Wraysbury Number One, the Yateley Car Park lake, and 'The Brook' in Kent, as well as other unknown syndicate venues, busy council-run waters and lakes off the beaten track. These accounts from back then feature some of the most admirable examples of the species present in the venues that the true addict could fish at the time. Chapters include: A good year; Wraysbury Number One; The strong survive; Into the unknown; A lesson in reduction; Coincidence in the capture; Maize Spot; Enter the Brook.