Copies: Unlimited

Extent: 144 pages

Size: 245mm x 170mm

Binding: Cased with dust jacket

Illustrations: Full colour throughout

ISBN 978-1-899600-96-0

Fishing for Big Pike Revisited

Barrie Rickards

Fishing for Big Pike, written by Barrie Rickards and Ray Webb, was first published in 1971 and quickly established itself as a classic. This completely new book brings the subject right up to date, drawing on years of experience and reflecting the radical improvements in pike fishing techniques and tackle. It uses fifty years of fishing diaries to shed light on fascinating, but little appreciated, aspects of our natural environment - in particular moon phases, and moon rise and set times, and barometric pressure - and the way in which they affect pike and the catch rate.

'Amongst pike anglers of my generation it is generally accepted that one of the most important pike angling books of that period, some would argue of any period, was Fishing for Big Pike. [In this] new book Barrie set out to update various aspects and also to include whole new chapters . . . when you see Barrie's captures from over fifty years displayed in chart form it is difficult to argue that there isn't at least some correlation between moon and pike.  At 141 pages . . . with the addition of new material, the illustrations by Rebecca Lyne being particularly striking, I found this a lovely book . . . one that will be picked up many times over the coming years.'
- Graham Slater, Pikelines