As a few of you will know I was one of the founder members
who met at Upton on Severn all those years ago and started the Barbel Society
on its way. This year it was decided
that the Society would produce a book to celebrate the barbel and its high
place in the specimen fishing world and the contribution the
Society made to that position. I was
very pleased to accept a position on the small subcommittee that were tasked to
bring the book to fruition, my particular task took advantage of the fact that
I’ve already produced two books of my own, Magic Moments and the current,
Targets Set and Achieved.
This week with the weather being decidedly poor I have taken
the chance to bring the book material up to date and ready for Martin Mumby to
get on with his part of laying out the material in final book form. We know he does a good job of this, bringing
all his skill into play, he in fact did my last book for me and I was very
happy with the result.
The plan is to use a mix of articles that have appeared in
the Societies magazine, Barbel Fisher, and have an equal mix of invited guests
to produce current features on their own view of barbel fishing. Well known guest writers include Dean Macey,
John Wilson, Len Arbery, Rob Swindells and many others.
It is the intention that the book will be produced to the
highest standard and will be in the order of 300 pages and 100,00+ words, as
with most modern books there will also be a wide range of photographs to
illustrate each chapter. The book will
be launched at the Barbel Society Conference next June and details of ordering
can be found on their webpages at http://www.thebarbelsociety.co.uk
.
Fishing wise I’ve done just one trip and that was an
unsuccessful trip after pike. I did get
to see a large flock of fieldfares collecting the red berries of the bushes
that ranged behind my swim, there must have been in excess of 100 birds, but
lots of berries so no problem.
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