Book description
How to Fish
is an unabashed, unashamed celebration of the joys of fishing. It is
about contentment, calm and solitude, rivers and river banks, losing
track of time and, of course, the fish themselves. For those who already
enjoy fishing it is a love letter to their art and for those who don t
yet! it is an insight into a life spent getting up at the crack of
dawn and, armed with rod and line, heading for water Chris Yates is a
photographer and author but first and foremost a fisherman. He was first
inspired by the discovery of a monster carp in his village pond when he
was five. Thirty years later, he caught what was then the biggest carp
and the biggest fish in England and went on to write about his
experiences in books, in his own magazine, in radio programmes and in
the BBC2 series A Passion for Angling
. He lives in south Wiltshire.
