FALLON'S ANGLER: A medley of piscatorial prose. Issue 8. Edited by Garrett Fallon.

November 2016. Issue 8. 8vo paperback (170 x 240mm). Pp96. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations.

This is the eighth instalment of this excellent running collection of good, contemporary angling writing, edited by Garrett Fallon. Articles in this issue include: Back to the stone age again; In memoriam - John Andrews remembers Colin O'Brien (1940-2016); Waylaid in Weymouth; Sea trout and the pronaos of hope; Drew Roland Barr - A sporting life; The nameless loch; The unsolicited salmon; Antisocial angling; Back to the future; Grammasow; A pebble in the well; The call of the sea; The campsite Doo-Dah-Day - Part Two; River therapy by The General; Fallon's directory; The tackle maker - a profile of Paul Cook and The Art of Angling. Also included in this issue are a couple of book reviews (Reeling in the Years, by Harry Haskell; The Bounder, Riotous True-life Adventures of A Bon Viveur, by Mike Daunt), a reader's story (Crucian from the Moat? by Richard Naylor), a poem by Jonathan Totman and a crossword. Contributors include: Greg Freestone, John Andrews, Dominic Garnett, Graham Vasey, Drew Roland Barr, John Andrews, Malachy Tallack, Theo Pike, Vic Gent, Mark Walsingham, Bruno Vincent, Chris Yates, Kevin Parr, Dexter Petley; Richard Naylor, Jonathan Totman and Garrett Fallon. Long may it continue - buy it and it will. International Standard Serial Number, ISSN 2056-9378.