THE BIG FISH SCENE: EXPERT REPORTS ON LOCATING AND CATCHING SPECIMENS. Edited by Frank Guttfield. Hardback issue.

1978 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp199. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt.

"Frank Guttfield who is no fool when it comes to catching the odd specimen or two, has recruited a really talented group of anglers, the elite of the big fish men, to find out just how they do it. Several ...are appearing in print for the first time in this book, others already contribute to the angling press, ...their accounts are based on hard-won experience of the capture of big fish". Len Head on tench, Kevin Clifford on carp, John Everard on Thames barbel, Peter Frost on catfish, Graham Marsden on bream, John Wilson on chub and dace, John Sidley on big eels, John Probert on perch, John Bailey on roach and rudd, Martin Gay and Barrie Rickards on pike and zander. The hardback issue is quite hard to find.