ANGLERS, POACHERS - AND OTHERS. By James Fyfe.

1995 1st edition. 8vo paperback (142 x 215mm). Pp187. B/w illustrations by Ian Reed.

"I would like to dedicate this book to all those who practise the trying art of angling, and especially to those I have known over half a century - well, to most of them! - and whose comradeship or mere acquaintance I have valued immensely. The most individualistic amongst them have inadvertently provided me with ideas for some of the stories and have also enabled me to conjure up characters who, alas, seem to belong to a dying breed, now doubt due in large measure to the stifling effects of the mass media on the free development of personality." (From the author's preface). Contents include:- 8 from 9; A hand was raised; Impasse; Chain of irony; Cost of revenge; The bell tolled... ; Tanle o' the Isles; Slimy Sid; Eye of a needle; Contact; Settled - out of court; Pranks in the pouch; Ally's silent army; Atonement; Ambition; Duplication; The twenty-five pounder; The break; Fruits of remorse; An unexpected call; Earth and irony; Black Ben; Retribution; The invitation; Backfire; And only he knew... ; The visit; What the eye doesn't see... ; The craftsmen; Dilemma; Tale of the unexpected; The plank; Floods of change; The intruders; High tension; The dambuilders; A matter of species; A matter of breaking strain; The disrupter; Mind over matter? (Followed by poem "Dark River" and with illustration); About turn; With a pinch of salt... ; Half-pound champion; The took; Richardson's fancy; Cost of a "tangerine"; Epilogue - duty done.