Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160937 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Review
One of the few books to capture the realjoy of fishing in such a way that even the non-angler is seduced. --The Independent

Customer Reviews

One of the best angling books ever written?
This is not a book for rigs, diagrams and techniques. This is a book, which through a wonderful mix of real-time and flashback, manages to create a kind of philosophy of fishing and reads as a wonderful manifesto of why we keep returning to the bankside. It is a timeless and evocative account of a whole day and night fishing at the point of midsummer on a secret carp lake.

The Secret Carp is one of my favourite fishing books, along with the author's justly famous Casting at the Sun.

Sit back during a rainy or snowy day and remind yourself why you love to go fishing. It's a wonderful read!

too much storytelling!
I had hoped for little more describtion of technics and stuff. He is telling some nice story of fishingtrips etc. but I had hoped for more.

Vanishing lakes, monster carp and the art of tea making...
If you have always wanted to share a days fishing with someone who really seems to understand why angling has its fascination, read this book. Chris Yates has a way of bringing the waterside into your armchair quite unlike any other writer and makes you look forward to summer days (and nights) in a magical landscape. Each chapter begins as a commentary on a midsummer days carp fishing at a lost lake, then regresses to describe memories of encounters with vanishing lakes, monster carp and the art of tea-making, marrying past and present so well that the distinction between them ceases to exist, symbolic perhaps that, in fishing at least, time is immaterial.