IT'S A LONG OLD ROAD. A TRIBUTE TO STEVE EDWARDS FROM HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Compiled by Craig Lyons, edited by Mike Starkey.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 215mm). Pp192. Colour and b/w photographs. Maroon boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

"Steve sadly lost his fight with cancer last year and many of his friends and fishing companions have joined together to write this book in his memory." Part of the specimen hunting scene since the early sixties, Steve was out there catching massive fish before most of us were born. Carp were his first love and he was the proud captor of thousands of twenty pounders and numerous thirties, topped by a prestigious forty pound English carp. Steve had a particular fondness for the lake at Sutton at Hone, fishing it for many years, and included here is an article he wrote on the lake for Carpworld. Jim Gibbinson describes how he first met Steve on an eel fishing expeditionto Loch Ness while Steve's son tells how his dad and friends were thrown off Roger Daltrey's famous trout lake for feeding the fish with trout pellets. Contributors include Nick Buss, Bob Baker, Chris Ball, Chris Brown, John Carver, Terry Davy, John Elmer, Peter Garvan, Jim Gibbinson, Jerry Hammond, Chris Haswell, Kenny Hodder, Joe Jarman, Derek Linstead, Craig Lyons, Robin Monday, Bob Morris, Paul Owen, Trevor Quinlan, Pete Springate, Derek Stritton, Wilf Stockford, Tony Tappenden, Andy (Nobby) Wickens and Fred Wilton.