JIM DAVIDSON GETS HOOKED. Illustrated by Len Gurd.

1986 1st edition. 4to (184 x 252mm). Pp111. B/w cartoon illustrations by Len Gurd. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

Humorous fishing tales. Jim Davidson's love of angling was "instilled into him by his father on many countryside holidays on the Norfolk Broads and in Kent when he was young. What may not be known to many of his TV fans is that Jim is widely accepted by anglers, especially carp anglers, as a successful big fish man. He is a member of the Carp Anglers' Association and his best carp, caught from a very 'difficult' club water in Kent weighed 21lb 10ozs. ...His angling exploits have been reported widely in the Sun newspaper, Angling Times, Anglers' Mail, and the Carp Catcher magazine. As you will see from this book, Jim has been so keen to get fishing that at times he has worn his fishing clothes on stage and has mixed his bait in his dressing room. Given Jim's love of fishing there is obviously some serious content in his first book, but it wouldn't be a Jim Davidson book without containing much Davidson humour on every page which the reader will not need to be an angler to appreciate. Indeed, the publishers have had to provide some censorship for some of the well known bawdy Davidson humour, or the book might not have been published at all!"