The item you are currently viewing is a November 1998 (issue 89) edition of ‘Improve Your Coarse Fishing’. These magazines are full of excellent articles and richly illustrated throughout with full colour photos and illustrations. Many of the big-name writers of the era can be found among its pages. This edition runs to 132 pages and was edited by Gareth Purnell. The free float card no longer comes with the magazine.

The magazine is in an overall good condition for its age. The magazine’s pages remain tightly bound together by two non-rusted staples. Each of the magazine’s four edges remain sharp without obvious rub. Each of the magazine’s four corners remain unbumped without rub or rounding. Externally, the front cover remains in a good clean overall condition without obvious rub or shelf-wear. Specifically, there are the remnants of some sticky tape, from where the free float card was once attached. The previous owner’s surname has been written in pencil along the top edge of the front cover. The rear cover also remains in a good overall condition with some restricted shelf-wear, including a slightly bumped and crinkled top (spine) edge and corner. Internally, the pages remain in a good clean and undamaged condition. Please study my accompanying images for more details of this magazine’s condition.

Contents

1.    The magic of margins – Iain Toombs

2.    Letters to the editor

3.    News and Views – Gareth Purnell

4.    Tackling the tow – Graham West

5.    Ask the experts

6.    The hit squad (File 7)

a.    Martin Ford on how to master stillwater carp venues

7.    The perfect feeder rig – Andy Kinder

8.    10 ways with casters

9.    Surface safari – Matt Hayes

10. Where to fish

a.    Lanark Loch – Lanark, South Lanarkshire

b.    Langdale Fishery – Melsonby, North Yorkshire

c.    River Swale – Thornton Bridge, North Yorkshire

d.    Dennis Rainwater – Croft, Lincolnshire

e.    Great Broughton Pond – Great Broughton, North Yorkshire

f.     Trefaldu Farm – Dingestow, near Monmouth

g.    Leighton Pools – Codswall Wood, near Wolverhampton

h.    Fisherman’s Retreat – Bye Road, Shuttleworth, Rossendale

i.      River Great Ouse – Ely, Cambridgeshire

j.      Kemsley and Larkspur Lakes – Sittingbourne, Kent

k.    Bullocks Farm – Kingston, Seymore, North Somerset

l.      Whitemoor Lake – Holt, near Wimbotne, Dorset

m.  Eden Vale – Westbury, Wiltshire

11. Dave Harrell’s float clinic

a.    Part 5: Lignum stick

b.    Ask Dave – Dave Harrell

12. Mission gallery

13. Martin Ford’s specialist corner

a.    Perfecting the ‘Method’

14. Fishing rod workshop

a.    Part two: repairing a break

15. Improve Your Coarse Fishing strikers!

a.    Matt on a mission – Matt Hayes

b.    Ask Matt! – Matt Hayes

16. Tackle Mart

a.    Tackle talk – Iain Toombs

b.    Buy of the month

                                          i.    Fluoro Mini Butt Banger

c.    Tackle shop

d.    Under a tenner

e.    Head-2-head: budget poles on test

                                          i.    Shakespeare SKP MG1000

                                        ii.    Leeda Obsession

                                       iii.    Silstar Reakt

                                       iv.    Browning Ghost 1000

                                        v.    Steadfast Triumph

                                       vi.    DAM First Litanium

f.     Long term test

                                          i.    Gareth’s choice: Future Olivettes

                                        ii.    Iain’s choice: MAP 12 ft Medium GB Feeder

                                       iii.    Martin’s choice: Avon Classic Centrepin Reel

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