THE CHALLENGE OF BIG CARP. By "BB".

2007 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 215mm). Pp[xiv],94. Frontispiece portrait photo, b/w illustrations by "BB", patterned end-papers. Dark green cloth, upper board illustrated and titled in gilt, spine plain.

This is an attractively illustrated collection of BB's articles on carp fishing, mostly first published in magazines in the 1950s". Many of the stories at the beginning of the book were from the very early 1950's and were written even before Richard Walker caught his record 44-pounder from Redmire Pool in 1952. So ..I find them fascinating to read as they mark the birth of the modern carp fishing era". Walker also appears in one or two of Watkins'Pitchford's articles. chapters include: The challenge of big carp; In search of carp; Fisherman's folly; The first day; A carp fisher's paradise; How to catch big carp; The mystery of Mapperly; The art of carp-catching; Fish after midnight; Stocking a coarp pond; The drowned galleries; Tench and bream from the Old Mill Pool; Night watch; This was my finest hour; Thoughts on Bob Richard's record carp; Murgett stirs up some Bu(BB)les; The cunning snares of man; Big Pond and woodcock; Hunting the slipper.