POLE FISHING. Edited by Kevin Wilmot. With a foreword by Jan Porter. Improve Your Coarse Fishing series.

1992 1st edition. 4to paperback (184 x 262mm). Pp127,ad. Colour photographs, b/w line illustrations by Malcolm Lane.

This is a detailed and useful introduction to pole fishing: choosing a pole, elastics, floats, making winders, rigs to use, baits, fishing the whip, and much else besides. "Whether you are trying to winkle out roach from under the trailing branches of a canalside tree, catch chub from a flowing river, or carp from a fish-packed lake, you can do it by pole fishing. It's the fastest-growing branch of our sport and offers a refreshing change from float fishing or legering. Almost every freshwater species can be caught by pole fishing and this book explains the techniques and skills required to get the best from it."