THE LOST DIARY APRIL - SEPTEMBER 1981. FISHING DIARY OF C. FERNYHOUGH YATES. [By Chris Yates].

(2013) ND (2014) 1st trade edition. 12mo (114 x 185mm). Ppxii,148. Illustrated with b/w sketches by the author, patterned end-papers. Orange/yellow decorative boards. (No dust-wrapper - as issued).

"A summer fishing in pursuit of golden scales." "Chris Yates is one of the most celebrated anglers in the world today. He broke the carp record held by Dick Walker at Redmire in 1980, starred in the BBC series A Passion For Angling (often cited as the greatest fishing TV series ever made) and has written ten books, ('A piscatorial Proust - The Telegraph) including a series of diaries published between 1977 and 1980. The final volume of the River Diaries never made it into print, however, because Chris lost it somewhere in his house - a tragedy for all fishing fans as it included the last days Chris spent fishing at Redmire after his record catch and the early days of the Golden Scale Club. Happily for us, last Christmas, thirty years after the original series was published, Yates discovered an old battered photograph album in the bottom of a box full of Christmas decorations. The 'Lost' Diary had been found..." The diary covers Yates's last season at Redmire Pool which also happened to be the last season in which he fished almost exclusively for carp and so fills an important gap in his writings between his two other diary books, Four Seasons and River Diaries.