PIKE FISHING WITH NEVILLE FICKLING. By Neville Fickling.

1992 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 218mm). Pp212. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"No other single pike angler has fished as widely as Neville Fickling. ...His new book aims to provide the answer to almost all fishing situations the pike angler is likely to encounter. His own experience runs to over 200 20lb+ pike, with over 1,000 double-figure fish. He has taken 20lb+ fish from 46 different waters, a feat not equalled by any known pike angler". Contents include: About the pike; Basics; Specialised equipment; Handling,unhooking and conservation; Livebaiting; Deadbaiting; Lure fishing; Hotspots, feeding periods and prebaiting; Different waters - fen drains, fenland rivers, fast rivers, stillwaters, gravel pits, reservoirs, lochs and loughs, lakes and meres, broadland, on the Continent, trout waters, artificial waters; Big pike and the waters; Big pike and the baits; Twenty pounders by years. At the time of publication, Fickling was the captor of a 41.06 record. "There are several previously unpublished stories including that of Peter Woodhouse's 37.10 Thurne monster".