Today is World Book Day, a celebration of the joy that books bring to our lives. While many of us spend much of our time in front of screens, today is a good reminder of the simple pleasure that comes from opening a book and getting lost in its pages. With that in mind, we’re […]
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Passion For… ‘Poles Apart: The History of the London Roach Pole’ by Michael Nadell
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Jul
Jul
Poles Apart is published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books, and hit our shelves back in 2013. In our view, it remains one of the greatest books for tackle collectors this century for a wide variety of reasons. Above all, absolutely everything anyone would need to know about the London roach pole is written here. This is the […]
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Mar
Mar
An unusual call to the northeast of England brought me to a Bruce and Walker collector. Passionate about all things Bruce and Walker he followed his angling heroes Falkus, Oglesby, and Righyni through their angling tales, eventually meeting and fishing with them on many occasions. A collection of 30 mainly unused Bruce and Walker rods […]
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Nov
Nov
I often hear “there aren’t so many characters in the tackle game anymore.” Perhaps not, but in this high-speed I.T world it’s easy to become a keyboard warrior reducing effort, travel, and sadly social contact. Covid restrictions aside, perhaps that is the root cause. A recent purchase of a large fishing book library contained all three […]
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Jul
Jul
Anton Grüner, to whom this book was given, was born on the 16th September 1850 and died 24th April 1906. So, sadly, he wasn’t allowed a long life. He was a master builder and architect with quite some reputation and became member of the Salzburg Building Society in 1898. Many of his buildings in Salzburg […]
Books, Thomas Turner blog
German Artificial Fly tying book, 1903, Anton Gruner by Johann Bergauer flies to gut
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May
May
I’m thrilled with this tome, which recently landed on my desk.It dates back to 1905 and is handwritten in ‘Sütterlin’, sometimes also called ‘German script’, nicely bound in leather with the title, translating to ‘Fly pattern book for sportfishing’, set in gilt letters. It is a book about flyfishing, more specifically about fly patterns. It […]
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Mar
Mar
We were very excited to hear about David Watson’s new book all about split cane fishing rods. The book ‘One Man One Rod‘ is full of beautiful fine art images of the 175 coarse fishing cane rods collected by David Petty over fifty years. This is probably the finest collection of these rods ever assembled, […]