THE GREAT MODERN PIKE ANGLERS. By Barrie Rickards and Malcolm Bannister.

2006 1st edition. 4to (195 x 252mm). Pp160. Colour and b/w photographs, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

The authors' earlier book, The Ten Greatest Pike Anglers, was a history of pike angling up until the nineteen-fifties, discussing Nobbes, Cholmondeley-Pennell, Bickerdyke, Jardine, Senior, Martin, Spence, Sidney Spencer, Norman Hill and C.W.Thurlow-Craig. This new volume looks at modern developments in angling for pike, and especially at the achievements of Fred Buller, Bill Giles, Fred J. Taylor and Ray Webb. Chapters include: The last of the 'old school'; Deadbait fishing; The origins of holistic piking; Lure fishing; Fred Buller and Bill Giles; Big catches; A new breed of pike angler; Big waters; Handling and unhooking pike; Distance fishing; The new millennium.