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  • Published: 10 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141889986
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Out Of The Blue

On Fishing At Sea




Though an enthusiastic sea-fisher as a child, Chris Yates has concentrated on freshwater throughout his fishing life. In Out of the Blue he describes his return to the sea after half a life-time and his increasing passion for its changeable moods and habits. Remaining faithful to his fundamental angling ethic – fishing simply with the minimum of tackle and always using his old split cane carp rod – he nets a mass of singular experiences, from the quiet magic of a Dorset tide-pool to the strange delight of casting into the midnight sun off the Norwegian Island of Senja.

  • Published: 10 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141889986
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
Categories:

About the author

Chris Yates

Chris Yates is an author and photographer but most famously a fisherman. He was first inspired by the discovery of a monster carp in his village pond when he was five. Almost thirty years later, he caught a fifty-one and a half-pound carp – the biggest fish ever caught in England – using a split cane rod at Redmire. He 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.

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Praise for Out Of The Blue

Yates is the best writer on fishing today

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