Chris Yates (fisherman)

Chris Yates is an angler, photographer, tea connoisseur, prolific writer with contributions to the Idler magazine and former Editor of Waterlog magazine. He is a celebrated British fisherman and former record holder with the capture of 51 lb specimen carp from the famous Redmire pool (UK).

Published works

• How to Fish Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd ISBN 0-241-14330-6
• The Secret Carp Chris Yates Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN 0-8117-0045-3
• Passion for Angling Chris Yates, Rodger McPhail Publisher: BBC Books ISBN 0-563-36741-5
• Casting at the sun Chris Yates (1986) 2006 2nd Medlar printing edition. (The Medlar Press) ISBN 978-1-899600-36-6
• " The Deepening Pool", Chris Yates – Publisher: HarperCollinsWillow; New Ed edition (19 Jun 1991)

Language EnglishISBN 0-00-218419-2ISBN 978-0-00-218419-9

• Falling In Again Publisher Merlin Unwin 1998

Television series

Chris is a former participant in BBC2's A Passion for Angling, the much-acclaimed series of six BBC films where Chris Yates and Bob James go on a grand fishing adventure across Britain. Chris is noted for his eccentric style and his passion for freshwater fishing often with a center pin reel. Chris prefers to fish using older methods and tackle, making him one of a rare breed of Angler enjoying the cane rods and original fishing equipment of a bygone era. In his books and films Chris always has a strong emphasis on the enjoyment of being close...
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