ISBN: 9780955626708 - On the Beat with Black Shrimp: Angling Experiences of a Lifetime (1 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 217mm). Ppviii,222. B/w photographs. Purple boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. These are John Cathcart's stories of over fifty years salmon fishing in Scotland. For many years he contributed an angling column to the Highland News under the pen-name, Black Shrimp. Sadly he died shortly before his book was published. Chapters include; introduction to the noble art, my first poacher, moving to Inverness, my first big fly rod, my first salmon; three years in the RAF, fishing in Germany; night fishing, the Laggan, the Wooly Bear, the Ewe, the rock and the Coachman, a fish on every cast, the Inverness Professor; my sherry fish; the right connections, Louis Davidson, Mr Herd and the Garry, Duncan Shankland, Major Godman of Ness Side, a real toff, Mrs Max Muller, Joyce Ross and the Tay; the day I met Miss Ballantyne; Canada - an angler's paradise; riverside buddies, poaching, telling evidence, the graveyard shift, grateful recognition, the salmon and the flat fish, devastation by the Dark Side; days to remember; one offs; ones that got away - mistaken identity, fishing too light, a tale from the tail, end of a roll; tackle making - leader in lead, the wooden devon, enter the Wiggly Woggly, the move to plastic, the Aswood is born; Germany again; ghillying; British record brown trout; long cast; sea fishing; strangest things I have ever hooked; foul hooked?; the Loch Ness Monster; Ness islands and pool names; casting skills across the generations; fly lines; Inverness Angling Club; and finally. .…