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Sea Fishing: No. 6 (River Cottage Handbook)
£14.20£16.10 (-12%)
From renowned fishing expert Nick Fisher comes this concise and beautifully illustrated guide to fishing along British coastline. All that’s needed is a beach, pier, harbour, estuary or boat. Nick covers all the basics, such as when and where to go fishing, and then profiles the sea fish that you are likely to catch (each one clearly photographed), covering their conservation status, season, habitat and method of catching. Next he gets down to the nitty gritty, with a guide to tackles, rods, reeds, rigs, knots and bait, and step-by-step advice on all the sea fishing techniques. And for once you’ve made your catch, there are 30 delicious recipes from River Cottage.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Illustrated edition (3 May 2010) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1408801833 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1408801833 |
| Dimensions | 13.59 x 2.44 x 20.5 cm |
by Rob Sawyer
I am not an angler and probably never will be. I have been fishing fewer than 5 times in my life and have caught a Rudd and a Black Finned Tuna. Quite why I bought this book I don’t know but it seemed like a good idea at the time and anyway I like natural history – perhaps I am a latent angler?
I think I read this the wrong way which was cover to cover. It got a bit boring and repetitive in places as well as a bit of formatting fever so I would recommend dipping into it instead.
Having said all that my impression of Nick Fisher is ‘please will you take me fishing’. He writes in a nice style and comes across as a really nice chap. I imagine he would be as happy teaching a numpty like me as fishing with a Robson Green type enthusiast / nutter / irritating person.
Given his experience he could so easily have been over the top and recommended all sorts of nonsense to buy but it is such a down to earth modest account, and his recommendations are 100% sensible – try to buy decent kit but don’t go over the top.
His love of fish and fishing come through too, and I like the fact that he is conscious that fish have a right on this earth too and he respects that deeply.
Reely (ho ho ho) enjoyable book, but take it in bait sized chunks.
by Mandrake
This book is invaluable to the novice angler.
I recently purchased a few books on Sea Angling and this is by far the best!
This book helped me choose the correct set-up for the venue I planned to fish. With so many rods and reels on the market it can be a headache to find one which suits you. This gave me simple advice on what to look for in a decent rod & reel.
Loved the information on the various venues and what species you may find there.
Enjoyed learning about tides, weather, times of day, how the moon effects fishing. Very educational!
Covers most of the species and gives you some brilliant tips on what they eat. What type of beach they prefer. Best methods to catch them etc.
Also gives you recipes and instruction on how to dispatch and bleed fish. How to clean them. And, even gives you a few recipes thrown in for good measure.
I was able to take to the beach with my six year old son and we caught a wide range of species from Whiting, Dabs, Bass & Pouting.
Pardon the pun but we were both hooked on Sea Angling from that moment on.
The other book I purchased was “Ian Balls Sea Fishing Properly Explained”. Well worth a read, but I found most of the methods outdated. It was written in the 80s hehe!
Anyways, if you’re looking to get into the sport then buy this you will not be disappointed. Best book on Sea Angling in my honest opinion!
by joaquin
Awesome book with all the essentials and what I found particularly useful is that the author is able to synthesise the important information and gives great advice on how to fish for the different species. Truly great book! I was able to catch some fish with the advice in the book. The author clearly knows how to explain everything and in a very understandable way. It also gives great recipes for cooking and how to use all of the fish in different recipes. It is also very well organised and shows the season for different fish, the different fishing places to catch them, the times to go, etc. I am a total newbie and I found this book perfect and high quality. Highly recommend it to everyone
by Willyum R
Nick Fisher used to present a wonderful Saturday morning radio show called “Dirty Tackle”, and in print he is as good company as he was on the radio. This book is for the beginner who wishes to fish from the shore (piers, rocks or beaches) and he only mentions boat fishing in passing. The picture of mackerels on the cover of the book rightly indicates that he is chiefly interested in the fish that you are most likely to catch – mackerel, dogfish and pollack (followed by around 20 other species such as garfish, mullet, cod, bass and conger), the techniques needed to catch them, whether to keep them, and how to kill, gut, prepare and cook them.
He gives basic knots and a few basic rigs; (and there are numerous glossy books full of hundreds of rigs that you will never use, and numerous magazines trying to get you to buy five times as many gadgets as you actually need, and flog you a reel for £100, when the £30 one will catch you just as many fish). The mistake of most beginners is to buy far too much kit, and to try and master in his/her head a huge number fishing techniques and other theoretical knowledge. What you need is to read this book, learn how to fish two or three ways at first (perhaps using feathers, shiny metal lures, and perhaps a floating rig), and then go out and get fishing off the nearest pier, gaining experience, and asking other fishermen for advice, which they will always be happy to give!
For me, the greatest strength of the book was showing which fish can be retained to eat, or should be put back alive, and then how to kill and gut them, and appropriate recipes for different species. Some people always throw back dogfish, but if you can master that tricky business of skinning them then they are simply delicious.
The book is a good-quality modest-sized hardback which doesn’t fall apart with repeated readings, and which is not heavy so can go in a rucksack with you when you go fishing.