which I'd never heard of until recently. I've just ordered a copy from Amazon.

Anyone read 'Deep Trout' by William Washabaugh? It's an anthropological look at angling. Check it out here.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Tjf...age&q=&f=false

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Yes, I can recommend it, puts fishing in its social and historical context, without ever getting too heavy.

By way of analogy for any cricket lovers reading this thread, Mike Marqusee's book Anyone but England did the same thing for our summer game and I found it fascinating.

I'd be interested to know what you think when you read Washabaugh's book.

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Thanks Jeff. Got the tip off about it from Adam Brown, the guy running the angling research project. Come on postie - get it here double quick!!

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Looks interesting - just ordered it for £0.01 from amazon bookseller (of course pp was £3.95)

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"There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." Paul O'Neil

Fascinating stuff. Not sure I understand everything but I 'get' what the author is trying to do.

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