The Beginner's Guide to Coarse Fishing - Tapa blanda

This brand new guide is packed with information about tackle, rigs, baits and the different species of fish you can catch in british waters. The author draws on his 40 years as a coarse angler to explain the tackle, tactics and bait needed to catch coarse fish. Illustrated with picture of the tackle and rigs to use, as well as pictures to help you to identify the fish you catch, this guide will give you a head start in this most fascinating of outdoor sports. Whether you’re a complete beginner to the sport, or have been fishing for a while and want to improve your skills, we’re sure you’ll find plenty to interest you.

As someone who was born in the middle part of the last century, before video games, colour television and the many other electronic distractions of today Paul Duffield has fond memories of the time that he spent reading old fishing books, making fishing tackle, and learning to catch fish in the local stream. He gets as much pleasure, maybe more, from catching a few small fish from a tiny unspoilt river, as from ‘bagging up’ on a well stocked artificial pond. Coarse fishing, if practiced in a more traditional way, has infinite variety, and success is not measured by the number or size of fish caught alone