FISHING STORIES FOR AFRICA: STORIES FROM THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE FISHING and HUNTING JOURNAL. Edited by Edward Truter and Martin Rudman. Hardback Limited Edition.

2014 1st edition. Limited hardback issue. 8vo (147 x 210mm). Pp300. B/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Craig Bertram Smith. Fully bound in black leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies.

In this collection of 40 stories, 21 authors share their fishing dreams, adventures and accounts of life on the water. Set mostly in Africa, they cover everything from wild times with tarpon in tropical seas to introspective tales of trout in mountain trickles. Chapters include: Introduction, by Edward Truter and Martin Rudman, The fish are biting, Bielie; Gold rush, Bruce Truter; Crocodile Rock, Martin Rudman; Instead of just a-wishin', Craig Thomassen; Ambition, Dick Sprawson; Tzitzimama, Dave Paton; Tarpon in my head, Edward Truter; How to clear trees, James Wakelin; Muldoon's luck, James Keech; Spare the rod, Bielie; A fish so big, Keith Hendry; Letting go, David Butler; The snapshot, Martin Rudman; Etching the river, Mike Mitchley; First fly - first fish, Andy Krajewski; Starkers on the Uasin Ngiro, Richard Carne; Fishing secrets revealed, Hendrik van der Schyff; Mazeppa mail boat, Colin Levey; Alligator moon, Edward Truter; Jumping the gun, Bruce Truter.