Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pennines, Catlow's shooting diary records his year as an amateur pheasant rearer, gamekeeper, forester, dog-handler and all-round shooting enthusiast. But he also records his thoughts as he goes around his small shoot: his views on the right to roam, on why he loves the birds he shoots, his wine cellar, his other sporting interests. He airs his opinions on subjects as diverse as sport and the nanny state, game cookery, friendship, disobedient dogs and beloved hats. 

Interspersed with pheasant shooting are magical evenings duck flighting and expeditions rabbit shooting. He controls vermin such as mink, crows and foxes - all familiar activities to those who run small shoots.

Catlow is shooting's most articulate exponent and this is an intelligent, funny and thought-provoking book.

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Illustrations:
18 Black & white illustrations

Pages:
192

Published:
Oct 12, 2003

ISBN:
9781873674680

About the Author:

Laurence Catlow is considered one of the finest and most thoughtful writers on flyfishing today.

He has a doctorate in Classics from Cambridge University and was Head of Classics at Sedbergh School. He lives in Brough, Cumbria, and fishes mainly in that county and in Yorkshire, although his pursuit of trout also takes him further afield, to Scotland, Wales, Shropshire and Hampshire.

His other interests include shooting and beating, walking his dogs, wine, religion and classical music.

Laurence Catlow writes about shooting and fishing for the sporting press.

He is author of Confessions of a Shooting, Fishing Man, Once a Flyfisher, Private Thoughts from a Small Shoot and That Strange Alchemy. all published by Merlin Unwin Books.