FENLAND PIKE. By Denis Moules and Mark Barrett. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2009 1st edition. De luxe issue. 4to (188 x 244mm). Pp264. Colour and b/w photographs throughout, b/w illustrations by Cheryl Tomline. Fully bound in maroon leather, gilt titles and pike motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt, silk marker ribbon. Edition limited to 50 copies.

This is a very detailed account of fishing for pike (and the occasional zander) in the Fens. The action takes place in the area bounded by Peterborough, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Thetford and the South coast of the Wash. Chapters include: What and where are the fens; The history of the Fens before the Great Adventure; The history of the Fens, the Adventure begins; Early days; A Fenland piker begins his journey; This is how we do it, tackle and methods; Interviews with Barrie Rickards, Bill Chillingworth and John McAngus; The Great Ouse; The Relief Channel; The Cut-Off Channel; The River Lark (with Paul Wilkanowski); The Little Ouse (with Colin Hall); The Wissey; The Cam; The Old West River; Tommy the bailiff; The Middle Level Main Drain; The Forty-Foot (with Richard Wesley); The Sixteen-Foot; The Delph, Old Bedford, Hundred-Foot and Counterwash (with Mick Tarry); Popham's Eau, Well Creek; The Twenty-Foot; The Old River Nene; The land drains; The Cambridgeshire lodes; Fly fishing the Fens for pike (by Colin Brett); The Fens afloat (by Andy Blazey); Saving the best till last, My Fenland Thirty. Designed and produced by Stephen Harper. This is a copy of the de luxe leather-bound edition that was limited to only 50 signed and numbered copies.* Laid in to this copy is an original signing card signed by 16 contributors - Mark Barrett, Denis Moules, John McAngus, Cheryl Tomline, Danielle Tomline, Colin Hall, Barrie Rickards, Steve Rodwell, Bill Chillingworth, Stephen Harper, Rik Wesley, Sally Glen, Paul Wilkanowski, and three other illegible signatures.