How To Catch a Fish

If you think fishing is a simple matter of casting off from a river bank with rod and reel, or dropping a hook and line over the side of a dinghy, you're in for a shock. For award-winning writer and poet Kevin Ireland, fishing - especially for the elusive trout - is not an idle pastime. It's a passionate love affair with the natural world.

Since getting hooked as a boy, Ireland has punted on wild Irish lakes, clambered over medieval abbeys, trawled through old texts, and spent several thousand hours actually fishing. This book, he says, is the sum total of all he now knoes, or will ever know about catching a fish.