Chris McCully

Fishing

Covers of Chris McCully's Fishing Books Fishing and Pike Lures and Sketches with Fishing Rods These days, working and writing life involves angling or angling-related projects.

Recent publications include Sketches with­ Fishing Rods (2008) and Fishing and Pike Lures (2009). I'm currently working on a project with Ken Whelan and James Sadler which takes me on repeated angling visits to Ireland in order to fish for and research the recent history of the Irish breac geal, the white trout (= sea trout). Projected publication will be in 2013 (www.medlarpress.com).

These books are available direct from the publishers Sketches with Fishing Rods, Fishing and Pike Lures

or from Amazon - Sketches with Fishing Rods, Fishing and Pike Lures


Chris’s fishing books: an overview.

2013 (forthcoming) Irish sea-trout: Nomads of the Tides. Ellesmere, Shropshire: The Medlar Press.

2011 Outside. Uig, Lewis: Available from The Two Ravens Press. 210pp. ISBN 978 1 906120 57 3. pb.

2009 Fishing and Pike Lures. Available from Ellesmere, Shropshire: The Medlar Press. 278pp. ISBN 978 1 899600 67 0. hb

2008 Sketches with Fishing Rods. Available from Lichtenvoorde: Westerlaan or Amazon (Ills. by Ad Swier.) 112pp. ISBN 978 90 808453 6 7. hb

2006 (editor) Ad Swier. Passion for Pike is available from Lichtenvoorde: Westerlaan. 240pp. hb. or Amazon

1998 The Other Side of the Stream Available from Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press. 137pp. ISBN 1 84037 011 4. hb. [rpr US, Stackpole Books, 2004] is available from Amazon

1992 Fly-fishing: A Book of Words is available from Manchester: Carcanet Press. 280pp. ISBN 0 85635 931 9. hb. [rpr Oxford University Press, 1994, pb.]

I'm lucky enough to publish some work each year in that fine UK angling magazine Trout and Salmon, and have been associated with T&S for what are becoming rather many years. I'm also proud to publish occasional articles in Waterlog. Those two journals have become an important part of my angling life.

In a typical year I fish for pike and zander during the later autumn and winter; for sea-trout (in Denmark, Ireland and elsewhere) from late March until the end of September; and whenever possible, for grayling in the earlier part of the autumn. Occasionally, too, I return to my favourite English rivers - in Yorkshire, or the Wessex chalkstreams - to fish for brown trout and grayling. I enjoy that variety, and though I prefer catching all species on the fly-rods I'm by no means averse to catching pike (for example) on streamers, jerkbaits, spinners, plugs, softbaits or deadbaits when conditions and the behaviour of the fish require.

­If you are interested­ in finding out more about these fishing activities please visit the Fishing diary and details of current Fishing projects.

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