MUCH WATER, MANY BRIDGES: ALAN CREDLAND'S ANGLING TALES AND ESSAYS.

2003 1st edition. 8vo paperback (148 x 210mm). Pp128. B/w illustrations by the author. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies.

Interesting autobiographical essays of life, wildlife and coarse fishing in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Roach, rudd, tench, barbel, pike and carp. "Much Water Many Bridges takes the reader from the author's early garden cane days to the present hi-tec era of fish finder baitboards, carbon poles almost as long as cricket pitches and inflatable contraptions that allow trout anglers to walk on water. Along the way he shares a midnight feast with a fox, loses his breakfast to a couple of water voles, spends a night with a toad and makes a fine catch of rudd from the top of an elm tree. For the scientifically inclined there is a piece on the colour preferences of female chaffinches, male reed buntings and water shrews; and for the musical the incident of the melody making kingfisher. This is not a book about big fish, though one or two do make cameo appearances; nor is it an instructional book on how to catch any fish though the reader may gleam a few tips. But there is a chapter on how to avoid dismal blank days." Now out-of-print and hard to find.