All-round Angling
Published November 2011
Copies: Unlimited
Extent: 192 pages
Size: 216 x 138mm
Binding: Hardback with dustjacket
Illustrations: Colour and mono photos and black line illustrations
ISBN 978-1-907110-31-3
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A Train To Catch
Jon Berry
With the invention of the railways in the early nineteenth century, anglers were, for the first time, able to fish the length and breadth of Britain. The great train companies positively courted them, with special trains and angling club discounts.
From the Highlands of Scotland to the English Channel, the Welsh mountains to the Norfolk Broads, no corner of the British mainland was ignored by the emerging railway network - and where the iron rails appeared, so too did the fishermen. In A Train to Catch Jon Berry, angling historian, fisherman and travel writer, attempts to follow in their footsteps using today’s rail network, with fascinating and often highly comic consequences.
'We left Chippenham station - a Grade II listed building designed for GWR by J.H. Bertram in the 1850s - early on a Tuesday morning towards the end of October. The day was wet, squally and uninspiring, but I had been told that further east the forecast was better . . . I had left the perch rods at home and was equipped only for pike - this was a single-minded mission to land my own Broads monster and so the luggage rack above us creaked under the weight of heavy spinning rods, snap tackles and bungs, an overly-optimistic landing-net and a cooler bag stuffed with dead, frozen fish.'
From the Highlands of Scotland to the English Channel, the Welsh mountains to the Norfolk Broads, no corner of the British mainland was ignored by the emerging railway network - and where the iron rails appeared, so too did the fishermen. In A Train to Catch Jon Berry, angling historian, fisherman and travel writer, attempts to follow in their footsteps using today’s rail network, with fascinating and often highly comic consequences.
'We left Chippenham station - a Grade II listed building designed for GWR by J.H. Bertram in the 1850s - early on a Tuesday morning towards the end of October. The day was wet, squally and uninspiring, but I had been told that further east the forecast was better . . . I had left the perch rods at home and was equipped only for pike - this was a single-minded mission to land my own Broads monster and so the luggage rack above us creaked under the weight of heavy spinning rods, snap tackles and bungs, an overly-optimistic landing-net and a cooler bag stuffed with dead, frozen fish.'
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