Pike Books

Fenland Pike

Author: Denis Moules & Mark Barrett

ISBN:

Published: 2009 by Stephen Harper

Pages: 264

Pictures: Full Colour

Chapters

1. The history of the Fens before the Great Adventure (MB)
2. The history of the Fens, The Adventure begins (MB)
3. Early days (DM & MB)
4. A Fenland piker begins his journey (DM & MB)
5. This is how we do it. Tackle and methods (DM)
6. "And in the beginning..." (Interviews with Professor Barrie Rickards, Bill Chillingworth and John McAngus)
7. Artery of the Fens. The Great Ouse (MB)
8. Sleeping Giant. The Relief Channel (MB)
9. New arrival. The Cut-Off Channel (Steve Rodwell & Cheryl Tomline)
10. Out of the shadows. The River Lark (DM & Paul Wilkanowski)
11. Little by name? The Little Ouse (DM & Colin Hall)
12. Fenland's forgotten river. The River Wissey (DM & MB)
13. I know a place. The River Cam (DM)
14. A misspent youth. The Old West River (MB)
15. 'Tommy' the bailiff (DM)
16. A Fenland Mecca. The Middle Level Main Drain (MB)
17. The 'Hard Drain'. The Forty Foot (DM & Richard Wesley)
18. The 'Harder Drain'. The Sixteen Foot (DM & MB)
19. Just to confuse you. Delph, Old Bedford, Hundred-Foot and Counterwash (DM, MB & Mick Tarry)
20. The Gallic touch. Popham's Eau (west) and Well Creek (DM)
21. Twenty by name. The Twenty-Foot (MB)
22. More than a match. The Old River Nene (DM & MB)
23. Over-looked and under-rated. The land-drains (DM)
24. Ancient and mysterious. The Cambridgeshire Lodes (DM)
25. Now for something completely different. Fly fishing the Fens for pike (Colin Brett)
26. The Fens afloat (Andy Blazey)
27. Saving the best till last. My Fenland Thirty (DM)

Synopsis

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Andy Webster