The Far from Compleat Angler cull to driving them in battered

to driving them in battered vans across Europe

Big Airguns and Bullet Bows

while it was much revered and indeed plagiarized

No time now to search for the culprit

The Far from Compleat Angler cull to driving them in batteredTom Fort, former angling correspondent for the Financial Times, is one of the most incisive and funny fishing writers in Britain today. This sparkling collection of his writings finds Tom at Ceausescu's bear hunting lodge in Romania, at a fishing auction in the Home Counties, being thwarted by a bunch of hard mouthed Brazilian dourado, on a press freebie in Scotland and in a terrible state on the Kennet not to mention conducting a fantasy celebrity