ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1997). 1997 1st edition. 4to (192 x 266mm). Pp192. Colour illustrations by John Searl, colour photographs. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Very good in dust-wrapper. A comprehensive and well illustrated guide to pike fishing in Britain. The foreword is by Fred Buller. Chapters include: First steps - a pike fishing apprenticeship; Rods, reels and line; Terminal tackle; Tools and accessories; Pike; Bait; Gravel pits and lakes; Rivers; Rigs; Night fishing and the neuromast system; The travelling angler; Boats; Lochs and loughs; Angling, ethics and the future. .

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Title: HOW TO CATCH BIGGER PIKE: FROM RIVERS, LOCHS AND LAKES. By Paul Gustafson and Greg Meenehan.
Publisher: Collins Willow. London. 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0002187523
ISBN 13: 9780002187527
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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Pike, along with carp, is the most popular specialist fish in the country with around 30,000 pike fishermen in Britain. Written by an experienced pike fisherman, this guide offers practical advice, from techniques and tackle, to how to locate pike in lochs, rivers and streams.

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Few pike anglers can claim to be equally at home when fishing rivers, lakes, gravel pits and lochs. Many can boast a mastery of one type of water, but only someone who has fished as widely and as exhaustively as Paul Gustafson can have gained the ability to catch specimen fish consistently from all four.

With unique rigs of his own devising, items of tackle of his own invention and previously unpublished scientific discoveries about what pike see and how they can detect without using their eyesight, the author has broken down the barriers of man's knowledge of the species and opened the door to new techniques.

A pioneer of night fishing for pike, with remarkable success, he is a firm believer that barometric pressure and light levels play an enormous part determining their movements, even to the point whereby success and failure on a given water can be predicted by studying the weather.

As a skilled angler, Paul shows us how to choose and use the most effective tackle to catch this beautiful predator, and as an experienced naturalist he gives us a fascinating insight into how a pike lives, moves and seizes its prey.

By reading this book, anyone can develop a technique that will enable them to catch bigger pike when fishing in any location. It is an inspirational guide to the species that will have everyone going back to their sport with renewed enthusiasm and considerably more potential for success.

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.

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