Big Carp Legends - Ritchie McDonald

To celebrate the 2Oth Anniversary of Big Carp magazine. this series of books entitled 'Big Carp Legends' will encompass the greatest names in carp fishing history over the past two decades. The content of the books in this series will be a mixture of articles from the archives of Big Carp, life histories of famous anglers and original articles specially commissioned for the series and never before published. One by one these books will build into the greatest collection of modern day carp fishing history ever printed; a collection that every serious carp angler will want to own.

Ritchie is without doubt one of big carp fishing's true legends. He dominated the seventies and eighties catching more 35lb-plus carp than anyone of that era. Propelled into stardom in the early eighties with the capture of the North Lake Forty, two pounds or.er the official British record, he became a household name and soon had a weekly column in the Angling Times chronicling his exploits at Lake Cassien.

Ashlea Pool record holder, Longfield destroyer, he found fame again in the Colne Valley obliterating Savay, The Cons and Harefield. Catching two forties in a week from The Pad and Car Park Lakes in the early nineties shook the angling world again. Ritchie had caught the impossible.

Ritchie is a 'one off in carp fishing, highly ambitious, dedicated and motivated - the original pursuer of the largest. Here is your chance to know everything there is ro know about this great angler, in his own words, with extracts from his own secret diaries and many never before published photographs from the golden age of carp fishing.