TALES FROM A PIKE ANGLER'S DIARY. By Malcolm Bannister. Author's limited edition hardback.

1993 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 217mm). Ppiv,110. B/w photographs and illustrations, maps. Red cloth, spine and upper board titled and numbered in gilt.

Pike angling around the UK but mainly the Lake District and Scotland with much on the PACGB. One of the hardest pike books to find. The foreword is by Barrie Rickards and there are guest chapters by Dave Lumb, Neville Fickling and Martin McDerby. Chapters include: Before the 'Moderns', by Barrie Rickards; Early days on the River Crossens; A long hot summer; Pastures new; The bonnie bonnie banks; Big pike and small zander; From Loch Awe to the Great Ouse; A mixed bag; A new personal best; The Angling Association; The Pike Anglers' Club; My view of the PAC, by Martin Gay; Castle Loch and another twenty; A day to remember; Broader horizons, by Dave Lumb; Bassenthwaite Lake; Toil and trouble; A simple formula, by Neville Fickling; A fresh start; The agony and the ecstacy; Guinness and pike; Esthwaite memories, by Martin McDerby; Rainbow's end.