ROMANCING THE CARP. By Dave Jones.

2013 1st edition. Square 8vo (159 x 215mm). Ppii,304. Colour photographs, b/w illustration, pictorial end-papers. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

Dave Jones describes the development of his career as a carper, bridging the gap between the early days of the solitary, misunderstood specialist, and the current era of "the modern cap angler, with ever possible commodity laid at his feet." Chapters include: Waggoner's Wells; Harting Coombe; Clarendon Pool; Petersfield Lake; Clarendon progress; Where dreams were made and lived; A sprinkling of corn on a golden pond; Brownwich Farm Pond; 1976 - the year of the maple; 1977; Clarendon grows; Frensham - the early eighties; The peanut dilemmas; Hungrier years; 1985; Frensham winter 1985 - the slaughtering of paradise; Clarendon and Brownwich come of age; Brownwich heat; The sirens of doom; Year of the hurricane; The summer of 1988; Clinging on; Clarendon roll; Return to Frensham; 1995; Against all the odds; A dream surpassed; Sinah (and a little nostalgic sadness); The New Millenium; 2001; Falling in love again; October 24th 2005.