REEL TIME: COLLECTED WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER YATES: VOLUME TWO 1990-2002. By Chris Yates.

2024 1st edition. 8vo (177 x 247mm). Pp287. Colour and b/w photographs, drawings by Paul Cook and Rob Woolnough, bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Gilt reel motif and titles to green cloth, spine titled in gilt. From a limited edition of 850 numbered copies.

Chris Yates' angling articles, 1990-2002, selected by the author. Tea with 'B.B.'; Barbel by the bridge; Favourite things; The cure; Day of the pike; The last cast; Secret river; Closed season delights; Jottings from paradise; Sting in the tail; Glowfish; Downstream from Dickie; Oh for a drop of anti-freeze!; Temptation of a wintering angler; The unexpected monster; Half a miracle; Paradise; Wondering Wye; Summer stalker; Mistaken identity; Autumn dreams; A boy's best carp; Hell and high water; It's a mystery; Sugar cane; All that glitters; Holy water; Storm in a tea cup; First day, last cast; Tales of the unexpected; Grayling fishing; Happy New Year!; The harder you try; Give it a break; The great gudgeon hunt; The final cast; Keepers of the lost season; The finer things of fishing; Red alert; Hares, hounds and the fish in the middle; A time for monsters; Fishing through the eyes of a child; Radio wins battle of the airwaves; Reflections from a bridge; The future of angling; A winter's tale; Catching for the camera; Dear diary... thanks for the memories; In praise of eels and pike; A serious shortage of gudgeon; Rain, rain go away; Strange but true; A classic start to the season; Will the royal crown be restored?; Wally up a willow; Why we have to keep the magic.