Copies: Unlimited

Extent: 256pp

Size: 234mm x 156mm

Binding: Cased with dust jacket

Illustrations: Monochrome photographs with colour plates

The Passionate Angler

John Goddard

John Goddard is a master angler, expert entomologist, celebrated author and regular contributor to the angling press, but it is as a gifted fly fisherman and fly tyer that he has really made his mark. In this autobiography, Goddard shares with the reader a lifetime of learning, angling expeditions and friendships. Foreword by Bernard Cribbins.

' . . . few would deny [Goddard] the title of the grand old man of fly fishing - you name it, if it could be done, he has done it and if he hasn't done a thing, he knows the people that did it. Which is one way of saying that you get introduced to a hell of a lot of people in this book, which skates around the globe, with the author fishing for carp in an English lake on one page and fighting marlin on the next . . . There is plenty of interest in this autobiography, beginning with Goddard's involvement in the family firm, Efgeeco . . . moving through an explanation of how Trout Fly Recognition came about . . . . and the stillwater trout years; to a battery of trips to the sort of places most fishermen can only dream about . . . a fascinating insight into a life I suspect a lot of readers would love to have lived' - Andrew Herd, Waterlog