On Fishing by Brian Clarke

On Fishing by Brian Clarke

‘Clarke's non-judgmental approach is a delightFishing needs more of this’
Financial Times Magazine

‘(Clarke) is a consummate wordsmith, crafting words with succinct, lucid sentences to set the scene for action or discussion … essential reading for anyone who's interested in our vital aquatic environment.’
BBC Country File

‘… this collection of articles and essays on piscatorial pleasures shows why it is more than just anglers who are drawn to the contemplative flow of his near-perfect pastoral prose.’
Scottish Field

More praise for Brian Clarke:

The Stream (2000) - an environmental novel:
'Devastatingly effective … ought to be required reading.’
The Times

'Magically wrought … a parable for our times.'
The Sunday Times

'The most significant book of its kind I have read since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.’
David Arnold Forster, Chief Executive, English Nature

Trout etcetera (1996):
'Instant classic, I'd say … Marvellously well-written. Enviably written.’
Ted Hughes

Brian Clarke has written and travelled widely for ‘The Sunday Times’ and, since 1991, as Fishing Correspondent of ‘The Times’. He has caught salmon in the Russian arctic, sea trout in Tierra del Fuego, rainbow trout in Alaska, marlin from the Indian Ocean, tiger fish from southern Africa and bonefish from the central Pacific. He has written extensively on other wildlife, the remote wilderness and the environment. In 2003 he became President of the Wild Trout Trust.