The One That Got Away: or tales of days when fish triumphed over anglers

by Christopher Wormell (Illustrator), Brian Clarke, George Melly, Neil Patterson, Julian Paget, Sidney Vines, David Street, Chris Yates, Conrad Voss Bark, Chips Keswick, David Profumo, Jeremy Paxman, Nigel Haywood, Bruce Sandison, Bernard Venables, Max Hastings

Overview

The one that got away' is the best-know phrase in fishing. Every angler has at least one story of being outwitted by a huge fish. A refrain of the angler, a taunt from those who live with them; it neatly sums up the way in which anglers are obsessed with the fish they almost caught. Yet to hear a fisherman tell the story of an escapee leviathan is to gain a great insight into why he fishes in the first place and why his sport is the most popular in the world. This is a collection of original stories from well-known angling enthusiasts and writers. They tell of unforgettable fish hooked and lost, of glimpsed monsters which haunt the imagination and draw the narrator back to a particular river or lake, time and again, in search of a re-match. David Steel loses his first-ever salmon after an epic struggle on the Ettrick; George Melly is upstaged by a giant Usk brown trout; Jeremy Paxman describes a fishing trip Stri Lankan style; Max Hastings was punished for being blasé and Bernard Venables - extending the definition of 'fish' - relates a thrilling but tragic whaling adventure in the Azores.Chris Yates, holder of the British carp record, tells of his close encounter with an even bigger carp; David Profumo is humiliated by a 400lb shark; Brian Clarke has his angling life marred by a monster pike and Conrad Voss Bark actually helped his fish get away - and he swears it came back to say 'thank you'. The pens of sixteen of the finest fishing writers have been at work describing salmon, trout, carp, pike, tarpon, shark, bass - fish from waters salty and fresh - all of which they missed. The result makes enthralling reading for anglers of every persuasion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906122836
Publisher:	Merlin Unwin Books Limited
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chris Wormell specialises in wood engravings and lino-cutting. His prints have appeared on posters and in books such as Hugh Falkus’ The Seatrout and Ian Niall’s English Country Traditions and Trout from the Hills. His An Alphabet of Animals (a book of beastly linocuts for children) won the Graphics Prize at Bologna. And more recently he engraved the arresting jacket image for H is for Hawk. He has been a keen angler all his life.
Conrad Voss Bark had a distinguished career as a national newspaper journalist and parliamentary correspondent for the BBC. Following his retirement as a political commentator, he was for many years angling correspondent for The Times. He wrote a number of fishing books, including The Dry Fly: Progress since Halford, A Fly on the Water, The Encyclopaedia of Flyfishing, Conrad voss Bark on Flyfishing and A History of Flyfishing. He was fascinated by the theories and experiments that lie behind developments in angling practice and fly design. Conrad Voss Bark was a keen fisherman, enjoying his sport from his home waters of the West Country (where his wife Anne ran the famous angling hotel, The Arundell Arms) to the stately Hampshire Test, to Ireland's enchanting Erriff, and to the wide expanses of the spring creeks of Montana. He died in November 2000.