Chris Yates is an angler, photographer, broadcaster, tea connoisseur and author born on 19 April 1948. He is a former holder of the record for the heaviest-recorded British

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, a 51lb 6oz specimen captured from Redmire pool in 1980. Yates is a former co-editor (with Jon Ward-Allen) of ''Waterlog'' magazine, and is a regular contributor to '' The Idler''. Yates prefers vintage tackle, particularly split-cane rods and centrepin

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, and regards cane as superior to any other rod-making material. His books and films emphasise being close to nature as one of the principal pleasures of fishing.

Television series

Yates was one of two central characters in

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's 1993 TV series ''A Passion for Angling'', made by Hugh Miles and also featuring Bob James, in which the pair go fishing for carp, salmon and other species across

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. The series was shown in many countries including Mexico, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Italy, Norway and Japan.

Radio

Between 1996 and 2006 Yates presented numerous BBC radio documentaries, all produced by Dan Shepherd o
Far Shoreline Productions
They included 'Fishing for Doubters', 'The Case of the Missing Burbot'
'Nocturne'
an
'Fish Tales'
In 2020 Yates presente
'Reading the Water'
and in 202
'Reading the Air'
both for BBC Radio 4.

Published works

* ''The Secret Carp'', Merlin Unwin Books 1992 () * ''A Passion for Angling'' (with Rodger McPhail), BBC Books/Merlin Unwin Books 1993 () * ''Casting at the Sun'', Medlar Press limited edition 1986, Classics edition 2006 () * ''The Deepening Pool'', Unwin Hyman 1990 () * ''Falling In Again'', Merlin Unwin Books 1998 () * ''Four Seasons'', Medlar Press 1996, 2nd Edition 2008 () * ''River Diaries'', Medlar Press 1997, 2nd Edition 2010 () * ''The River Prince'', (Ed.) Medlar Press 1998, 2nd Edition 2009 () * ''Shadows & Reflections'', (Ed.) Medlar Press 1999, 2nd Edition 2010 () * ''How to Fish'', Hamish Hamilton 2006 () * ''Out of the Blue'', Hamish Hamilton 2008 () * ''Night Walk'', Collins 2012 () * ''The Lost Diary'', Unbound 2013 () * ’Lifelines-An Anthology of Angling Anecdotes, and More…‘’ NAROD Publishing, 2021. A collection of 27 short stories centred around angling by 27 different authors including 16.6 by Chris Yates.

References

External links

''A Passion For Angling'' website

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