MORE GREAT PIKE STORIES. By Jon Berry. Medlar Fishing Anthologies series.

2012 1st edition. Small format (120 x 175mm). Pp202. B/w chapter heading vignettes. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

In this new anthology Jon Berry's research has turned up some superb stories of pike. Another anthology for the pike enthusiast, to sit on the shelf beside Fred Buller's Great Pike Stories. "Not all the stories here are concerned with monsters. ...Here, I have had to cast my net a little wider, delving into Victorian dictionaries, the early days of the weekly angling press, Scottish salmon anglers' accounts and even some wholly questionable poetry." (Jon Berry from the Introduction). Volume four in the Medlar Angling Anthologies series. Chapters include: Murkett's big pike by J.W. Martin; A ghostly shape by William Nathan; Livebaiting by Dennis Pye; Fairy tale and legend by Jack Hargreaves; A meeting with a poacher by Philip Geen; Jack by F.H. Amphlett; The practical fisherman by J.H. Keene; Snaring pike by Richard Jefferies; Shooting pike by R. MacDonald Robertson; Pike stories by 'Faddist'; Fly fishing for pike George Rooper; A Christmas pike by 'Red Quill'; Exos lucius by Patrick R. Chalmers; Angling for pike by R. MacDonald Robertson; Thames pike fishing by Charles Dickens (Junior); The pike by Delabere P. Blaine; Pike fishing extraordinary by F. Howard Lancum; On a storm-swept pike pool by H.T. Sheringham; Incidents, records and traditions by Alfred Jardine; Esox the magnificent by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald; Pike fishing in lakes by William Senior; Of the pike by H. Cholmondeley-Pennell; A voyage of discovery by John Bickerdyke.