Customer Reviews
One of the best angling books ever written? - By: , 02 Oct 2003 
This is not a book for rigs, diagrams & techniques. This is a book, which through a wonderful mix of real-time & flashback, manages to create a kind of philosophy of fishing & reads as a wonderful manifesto of why we keep returning to the bankside. It is a timeless & evocative account of a whole day & night fishing at the point of midsummer on a secret carp lake.
The Secret Carp is one of my favourite fishing books, along with the author's justly famous Casting at the Sun.
Sit back during a rainy or snowy day & remind yourself why you love to go fishing. It's a wonderful read!
too much storytelling! - By: , 15 Jan 2003 
I had hoped for little more describtion of technics & stuff. He is telling some nice story of fishingtrips etc. but I had hoped for more.
This is what fishing is all about - By: , 29 Oct 2000 This is a fantastic book it describes not only the fishing but also the atmosphere surrounding the lakes & the countryside. Once you start this book you can't put down. It is a great book for those winter nights when you can't go fishing.
Vanishing lakes, monster carp and the art of tea making... - By: , 28 Dec 1999 If you have always wanted to share a days fishing with someone who really seems to understand why angling has its fascination, read this book. Chris Yates has a way of bringing the waterside into your armchair quite unlike any other writer & makes you look forward to summer days (and nights)in a magical landscape. Each chapter begins as a commentary on a midsummer days carp fishing at a lost lake, then regresses to describe memories of encounters with vanishing lakes, monster carp & the art of tea-making, marrying past & present so well that the distinction between them ceases to exist, symbolic perhaps that,in fishing at least, time is immaterial.
