Author: Chris Berry
Publisher: The Medlar Press & Waterlog, Jun 2010
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1-907110-03-8
Synopsis
In the 1930s, a peculiar annual event started off the north-east coast of England. Each year, film stars, industrialists, society ladies & military heroes descended on Scarborough, determined to land one of the newly discovered leviathans of the sea - the tunny. This book is a celebration of a short but glorious era when a fish of 500lb was considered rather small beer. B&W Photos; 9x6 inches, 192 pgs.
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In the 1930s, a peculiar annual event started off the north-east coast of England. Each year, in August, film stars, industrialists, society ladies & military heroes descended on Scarborough, determined to land one of the newly discovered leviathans of the sea - the tunny.
By the early Fifties, however, this remarkable period of angling history had come to an end. With post-war austerity & the end of the Empire, tunny fishing somehow faded away. This book is a celebration of a short but glorious era when high society took to the high seas, wizened locals rubbed shoulders with knights of the realm, & a fish of 500lb was considered rather small beer.
