The Far from Compleat Angler

By Tom Fort and Charles Jardine

Tom 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 interview with Isaak Walton himself.

Whether fishing in some exotic far-flung location, or simply leaning over the parapet of an English bridge gazing at the stream below, Tom Fort always manages in his stylish and witty way to pinpoint something important with which all anglers can identify.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
• Release date: Dec 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781910723135

Tom Fort

Tom Fort has spent most of his working life with BBC Radio News. His interests, apart from lawns, include fishing and cricket, and he is the fishing correspondent for the Financial Times. Also the author of ‘The Far From Compleat Angler’, Tom Fort now lives in Oxfordshire.