Fishing: The best excuse for loafing in the countryside…
By Keith Arthur
Green Umbrella Publishing
Publication Date 31/08/2009
RRP: £14.99
ISBN: 978-1-906635-35-0
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Keith Arthur was born in Holloway, North London, in 1946. He started fishing at an early age and it has remained his passion ever since. Keith worked in the fishing tackle industry for 20 years before becoming the resident expert on Sky Sports’ Tight Lines angling programme in 1995. He accepted the role of Tight Lines presenter in 2004 and continues this role to date. Since 1999 Keith has also presented Fisherman’s Blues, the UK’s only fishing show on national radio on TalkSPORT. Keith has also produced his own weekly column in Angling Times since 1990.
Keith spends as much of his time as possible loafing in the countryside and this is the subject of his much anticipated first book. “Fishing:The best excuse for loafing in the countryside…” is Keith’s angling memoirs. It is jam-packed full of tales of his angling career and memories from his childhood. A must for fishermen of any age!
Every angler that ever cast a line has an idyll; whether that is casting for wild trout in a pristine Irish stream, waiting for the attack of a giant blue marlin in the Indian Ocean or catching gudgeon from a river in an English town centre, they will be lost in the moment. Keith Arthur describes ‘being lost’ under the general heading of loafing in the countryside and in this book he describes how he has loafed through more than half a century since growing up in North London and latterly becoming a television and radio presenter.
From the mysteries of early captures through to battles with giant sharks, this book follows him through some glorious and, occasionally, hilarious times. If you are an angler you will recognise yourself somewhere in these pages. If you are not, then maybe you will want to be after reading them.
Graham Marsden’s Review:
I’ve read the book from cover to cover and it’s difficult to pick out a chapter that stands out from the rest as they are all interesting in their own way. Keith Arthur has travelled the world and fished with some of the best anglers, past and present, on the planet, so if he hasn’t got a shedload of angling stories to tell, no one has.
Keith is opinionated and forthright, experienced at most levels of angling, and he tells a good story, the sum of which give him all the ingredients needed to produce a good book that will entertain angler and non-angler, experienced and novice, alike.
This is Keith Arthur’s story, and it’s a thoroughly good read.
