Welcome to Classic Angling Magazine
The website for the world's largest full-colour magazine on collecting and using classic tackle, and the history of fishing. Where top authors write on lures, rods, reels, art, books, fish, people and places. Here you can subscribe to the magazine, purchase back issues and read editor Keith Elliott's blog on angling.
Keith Elliott
Editor and Publisher
Editor and publisher of Classic Angling magazine. Founder member of UK Angling Writers' Association and current chairman. Former winner of Writer of the Year. I wrote a weekly angling column for The Independent for 23 years, having previously written columns for The Guardian and Sunday Mirror.
If it swims, I'll fish for it: marlin or mackerel, trout or tench, salmon or snook.
I've written several books on fishing, from one for the Duke of Edinburgh's award to the notorious Catchmore Sharks (don't look at the pictures) and Bob Nudd's autobiography, How to be the World's Best Fisherman.
I love exotic travel for fishing (been to Mongolia and Ecuador, the Great Barrier Reef and Arunachal Pradesh) and wish I could afford to do such trips more often. My favourite fish? Anything with fins, though I have a special love for mahseer, and I’m Founder and former Chairman of the Masher Trust.
Keith Elliott's Angling Blog
Book Reviews
- Client
- Scholars Without Borders
- Date
- 6th June 2017
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By Saad bin Jung Price: 295.00 rupees, from Scholars Without Borders (www.swb.co.in); £10.00 UK from various stores including Coch y Bonddu (www.anglebooks.com) and River Reads (www.riverreads.co.uk) […]- Client
- Self-published
- Date
- 6th June 2017
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By Norman J Pinardi, self-published Price: $24.95 ($29.95 outside Canada and US). OTTO Zwarg became a victim of his own success. His insistence on producing the best […]- Client
- Harper Fine Angling Books
- Date
- 6th June 2017
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By Bob Buteux and Tony Meers. Price: £30.00 Not another book of angling yarns only of interest to the writer and his mates, I thought. Except […]- Client
- L’Argus de la Peche
- Date
- 6th June 2017
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I‘ve only fished the Grand Cascapedia in Quebec once. On that occasion I caught a 19lb salmon and felt very pleased with myself until the guide said: “Nice fish! That’s only 1lb or so below the average size for this river.”- Client
- Anesha Publishing
- Date
- 5th June 2017
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I‘ve only fished the Grand Cascapedia in Quebec once. On that occasion I caught a 19lb salmon and felt very pleased with myself until the guide said: “Nice fish! That’s only 1lb or so below the average size for this river.”- Client
- Black and White Publishing
- Date
- 5th June 2017
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THESE are the days of sequels and prequels, where an initial success invariably generates a film, show or book on much the same lines. Bruce Sandison had a mild success with The Sporting Gentleman’s Gentlemen, published in 1987, and he’s repeating the formula here.
