Reviewed by Gary Knowles
Hailing as I do from the Red Rose county and as a dyed-in-the-wool ‘Lancashire Lad’ I was particularly interested in reviewing this book. Most other ‘where to fish’ type books I’d read I had done so with no real knowledge of the waters contained within. In this case I will have fished some of the waters on occasion and as such should be able to gauge the accuracy of the water’s descriptions and potential. 
First of all the book is small enough to fit in the glove compartment of your car. That way it can be left in there without the wife’s knowledge and thus enable you to ‘pretend’ to find somewhere to cast a line at the last minute when taking your family out for the day or on a weekend break. Those of you who are married will instantly relate to this little scam!
There are a total of 113 fisheries covered by the book, the vast majority of them being stillwaters but with five rivers and three canals also covered. Although some of the details for the rivers are a bit ‘sketchy’ it certainly gives a good enough starting point for anyone seriously trying to gain access to one of the rivers to enable them to do so. The stillwaters are generally described in much more detail, and as such an angler could well visit one of the fisheries with enough information at his disposal to enable him to prepare the correct bait, tackle, etc, before seeing the fishery in question.
The fisheries are listed in alphabetical order (I personally would have preferred them to be listed geographically) and each fishery is then given a brief description. This description generally comprises of size of water, features to look out for, favoured areas and a list of the various species and the sizes to which they both grow to and can be expected. Following from this there is further valuable information which is broken down and presented in the following categories:
