Richard Walker's No Need To Lie was originally published in 1964 and many regard it as a classic. This is the electronic version of the 50th Anniversary Edition published in 2014, reproduced to the original format, content and artwork.
No Need To Lie was written as result of an ongoing campaign waged by Peter Thomas. Dick wrote to share his ideas and knowledge, to provoke discussion and try to help others catch fish, rather than write about how and what he caught. Pete was insistent though that readers would be interested to hear some accounts of Richard’s ‘best’ catches, and so it is thanks to him that the original book was released in 1964.
Reg Cooke’s wonderful illustrations accompany the ‘pulse-stirring nature of these big-fish catches’ and have been painstakingly restored.
From the dustjacket:
When an angler as well-known as Richard Walker reminisces about his angling career, the result is bound to be worth reading. When Britain's top angler co-operates with a first-class artist such as Reg Cooke the result is a book that every angler will want to read and read again.
In "No Need To Lie" Walker writes about practically every freshwater species and his experiences in catching them. His angling career is full of very large fish including the famous 44-lb. record carp, the story of which is included.
There are details too of great roach catches and sorties after other species all told in the author's succinct and precise manner. The title of the book, of course, is taken from the much-quoted angler's prayer.
No one has done more than Richard Walker to encourage fishing for big fish in this country and few have more faith than he that our waters can produce magnificent specimens. This book is his own personal record of specimen fishing — with a now famous contest thrown in for good measure. It will be valued by many for its down to earth, factual, matter of fact style and treasured as an unvarnished account of the highlights in a specimen fish angler's life.
Reg Cooke's magnificent paintings bring to life many of the incidents which Walker so graphically recounts.
No Need To Lie was written as result of an ongoing campaign waged by Peter Thomas. Dick wrote to share his ideas and knowledge, to provoke discussion and try to help others catch fish, rather than write about how and what he caught. Pete was insistent though that readers would be interested to hear some accounts of Richard’s ‘best’ catches, and so it is thanks to him that the original book was released in 1964.
Reg Cooke’s wonderful illustrations accompany the ‘pulse-stirring nature of these big-fish catches’ and have been painstakingly restored.
From the dustjacket:
When an angler as well-known as Richard Walker reminisces about his angling career, the result is bound to be worth reading. When Britain's top angler co-operates with a first-class artist such as Reg Cooke the result is a book that every angler will want to read and read again.
In "No Need To Lie" Walker writes about practically every freshwater species and his experiences in catching them. His angling career is full of very large fish including the famous 44-lb. record carp, the story of which is included.
There are details too of great roach catches and sorties after other species all told in the author's succinct and precise manner. The title of the book, of course, is taken from the much-quoted angler's prayer.
No one has done more than Richard Walker to encourage fishing for big fish in this country and few have more faith than he that our waters can produce magnificent specimens. This book is his own personal record of specimen fishing — with a now famous contest thrown in for good measure. It will be valued by many for its down to earth, factual, matter of fact style and treasured as an unvarnished account of the highlights in a specimen fish angler's life.
Reg Cooke's magnificent paintings bring to life many of the incidents which Walker so graphically recounts.
