This guide to success at pike fishing embraces the tackle, rigs and techniques, and the necessary philosophical attitude. It also explores pike lore, an understanding of which enables the pike angler to exploit the pike's ecological role to his own advantage. The acid test of a good pike angler is whether he can succeed when presented with a totally new water, and the book give advice on overcoming this. Throughout the text a distinction is drawn between that which is considered important for success, and that which is the jargon of cults.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 10145967-6
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. Large 8vo (176 x 249mm). Pp168. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in dust-wrapper. As to be expected from Barrie Rickards, an excellent work on the subject that is useful to this day. Chapters include: The lore of the pike; Equipment and tackle; Successful techniques; The big fish waters; Decade on a gravel pit, by Colin Dyson; Boat fishing for pike, with Colin Dyson; Cracking a new water; The present and the future, by Martin Gay; The development of piking. . Seller Inventory # 16330
Seller: River Reads, Torrington, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Seller Inventory # 011392
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1992). 1992 1st edition. Large 8vo (176 x 249mm). Pp168. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. Signed by Dr. Rickards and by pike angling author Malcolm Bannister. As to be expected from Barrie Rickards, an excellent work on the subject that is useful to this day. Well worth a read. Chapters include: The lore of the pike; Equipment and tackle; Successful techniques; The big fish waters; Decade on a gravel pit, by Colin Dyson; Boat fishing for pike, with Colin Dyson; Cracking a new water; The present and the future, by Martin Gay; The development of piking. . Seller Inventory # 16331