Fishing For Wild Images

This is not so much a review, in my normal critical sense, as an enthuse, and that’s unusual for me.

Col Roberts is an Australian angler and a photographer and has an angling TV series that it would be good to see over here. His book is 158 pages of large format angling pictures of quite breathtaking quality.

They cover angling in Australia, obviously, but also Nile perch fishing on Lake Nasser, Central and South America (peacock bass, dorado, marlin) Papua and New Guinea and Africa. Shots include other wildlife than fish and scenic shots as well as action and close ups.

There are hints for photographers too. There is also a brochure available summarising an 8 episode TV series, and the brochure itself is a pleasure with more superb pictures.

I should think the TV series would be pretty special. Both the brochure and the book give a bit of biography of the author. He is a celebrated Australian landscape photographer with published photographic studies of the tropical north.

One would have thought that his angling and photography world wide adventures would have taken up all his time, but no, he just happens to have working life in law, is a Judge working in the Australian outback specialising in trying to fit modern ‘western’ law to the needs of a very ancient culture.

His record in Australian angling administrative achievements is also high – and angling/filming success does not always go hand in hand with helping angling’s problems, not least because of time problems – This man does not seem to have been deterred at all and has achieved a great deal in his time.