THE ULTIMATE ANGLING BUCKET LIST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I've been taking photographs of fish and fishing, often badly, for as far back as I can remember, and as
a result, I have recorded a lot of angling history as well as different fish species.
Unfortunately, many of what would obviously have been the best and therefore most important
photographs have not survived, primarily because magazines often didn't extend the courtesy of
returning transparencies, used or otherwise, in the days before digital cameras.
To some extent, the knock from this is reflected in the illustration used here, of which I acknowledge
there is rather a lot. In addition to the sheer volume, the range of coverage in terms of quality is another
factor worth mentioning.
This includes everything from high resolution digital images and old black and white shots through to
scanned colour transparencies. Even occasionally, scanned newspaper clippings, and to fill in the gaps,
a few pencil and ink sketches here and there which due to my RA problem were extremely difficult to
do.
I make no apology for all of this. To my way of thinking, this range and diversity in terms of age and
quality actually contributes to the finished item as a historical piece, charting one anglers life-time
progression from that first serious wetting of a line through to semi-retirement from fishing on medical
grounds, with all the changes in technology and fortunes that have paralleled it along the way.
In order to illustrate and support the text to the extent I wanted, I have had to turn to a number of angling
friends, journalists, and other members of the angling community for help, which in all cases, and at
times even from people I didn't previously know, has been freely given, and without whose generosity
the finished item would most certainly have been much the poorer. So to the following people I owe a
particular debt of gratitude.......
Graeme Pullen: for photographs, accommodation, and many instances of good fishing both home and
abroad over the years.
Dave Lewis: as with Graeme, for photographs too numerous to mention individually, accommodation,
and instances of good fishing both home and abroad.
Mike Millman: West Country journalistic legend and copy right holder of so many amazing big fish
pictures accumulated over that period of angling history when there were still plenty of big fish about,
with excellent record prospects, and Devon and Cornwall sitting right at the epi-centre of it all.
World Sea Fishing (WSF): Both Mike Thrussell Jnr and Snr for shots of wreckfish, john dory and
gilthead bream.
Bill Rushmer Anglers Mail: Not only for some beautiful shots of crucian carp, grass carp and golden
orfe, but also for steering me in the direction of other missing photographs.
Ron Greer and Alastair Thornes: Ferox 85 co-founders, for providing some of the ferox pictures and
some excellent memories of some truly wild fish caught in truly wild conditions.
Andy Griffith: for photographs of mako and porbeagle sharks in particular, plus others including black
mouthed dogfish and albacore. blue shark, blue fin tuna and conger.
Michael McVeigh: Irish charter skipper based near Downings and pioneer of blue fin tuna fishing who
provided some of the tuna photographs, plus several other less common species such as megrim and
cuckoo ray.
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