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Fish Camp Fail: Go Fishing ▴ Control the Fear ▴ Avoid Werewolves Paperback – June 15, 2022

by Ben Jailler (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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"When fresh and funny writing comes along, it has the effect of plunging your face into iced water... This is highly imaginative storytelling; witty and sharply observed." - TROUT & SALMON MAGAZINE

"The freshest, funniest fly fishing writer we have read in a long time... Fish Camp Fail is a must read." - THE MISSION FLY MAG

It’s a journey that starts on the concrete causeways of Bristol’s Barrow Tanks, wild camps its way through the Cambrian Mountains, via Brittany’s Bay of the Dead and George Orwell’s Jura, and ends with cheesing Assynt’s Jurassic brown trout in a hooley. Fast-paced and light-hearted, this refreshingly new voice in angling writing riffs on the changing British landscape, the trout that live there and his search for a slice of solitude.

Funny, irreverent and startlingly original, Fish Camp Fail is your guide to the importance of getting away, experiencing nature and avoiding werewolves. It won't help you catch more fish, but it will make you laugh.

BEN JAILLER is a regular contributor to Fly Culture and Fallon’s Angler, and has also written for Flyfish Journal, The Drake and Trout & Salmon. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a BA in Screenwriting for Film and Television, and has written screenplays, video games and worked in media production.

"This collection of stories is everything your typical fly fishing book is not. Irreverent, funny and occasionally unrepeatable in polite print, it’s a warts and all type confessional with a difference." - DOM GARNETT, Angling Times

"A truly extraordinary fishing book." - MATTHEW WRIGHT, broadcaster and vice president of the Wild Trout Trust

"Definitely one of the most original and funniest fly-fishing books I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading!" - WILL MILLARD, author of The Old Man and the Sand Eel

"Fish Camp Fail is a fast-paced, light-hearted book that will bring a smile to your face by offering a new take on wild fishing. Ben Jailler should be commended for writing something that is original, funny and thoroughly enjoyable." - FALLON'S ANGLER

"The prose is delivered with the speed and accuracy of a machine gun being unleashed by John Cooper-Clarke. It is well observed and crafted with a skill that is peppered with humour - the sort that will make you laugh out loud." - FLY CULTURE MAGAZINE

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  5. ISBN-13
    979-8831160505
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B3K7YWSH
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 15, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8831160505
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.31 x 8.5 inches
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    4.4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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Ben Jailler is a regular contributor to Fly Culture and Fallon’s Angler, and has also written for The Drake Magazine, Flyfish Journal and Trout & Salmon. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a BA in Screenwriting for Film and Television, and has written screenplays, video games and worked in media production. Ben lives in the South West of England and counts the days between his road trips to fish for wild brown trout in remote Lochs and Llyns.

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  • Russ Beck
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jailler breaks angler stereotypes.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2023
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    In an essay, Jailler describes watching TV with one eye on the screen and the other one looking up facts about the show or film he’s watching. That might be the best way to read this book. Jailler makes uncommon comparisons to “Dude, Where’s My Car?”; video games and 70’s cinema—all somehow related to fishing.

    I like that this book also expands the idea as to who is allowed to fish. I can’t imagine Jailler wearing tweed—and that’s a very good thing.
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  • gee
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you are going to read one fly fishing book this year....
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2022
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    A little gem of a book. I don't fly fish, but this was still great fun! This book contains a selection of amusing tales from the riverbank - or barrow bank / loch bank etc. Ben shares his life philosophy; well, more an insight that real life is far too stressful and we should perhaps take any and all opportunities to retreat to a remote lake somewhere. And it is these trips to different fishing spots, and more interestingly the characters whom Ben meets along the way, that is so fascinating. Did the two chaps on the quad bike every make it home? Will you get eaten by werewolves featured in Midlands today in the 80s? And what is it like to sleep in a bag in the rain? The answer to these questions are revealed. But *spoilers* - the answer to that last question is unsurprisingly not good, not good at all.

    There is a lot for the keen fly fisher person. And plenty for those (like me) who have no idea about the sport. My knowledge is limited to knowing what the wickhams fancy was as a result of the 1975 film Carry on Behind. Anyway, this is a fun read and you will zip through it.
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  • Corsican Dave
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently crafted fishing tales from a talented author
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2022
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    Ben has been published in a number of top quality magazines and his stories are both polished and engaging. And great fun!
    You’ll gain an entertaining insight to the alternative fly fishing world of the infamous ‘Mousers’, feel every strained breath as he confronts his nemesis (heights) on the coast of Brittany, and come face to face with the werewolf prowling the remote Welsh hill lochs.
    If your idea of fly fishing is tweed jackets, pristine chalk streams and gentlemen’s clubs, then read this book!
    ‘Cos it’ll #$@£ your %*€? up…. In a REALLY good way 👍😎
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  • Simon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2023
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    I really enjoyed this book. I'm not an angler but found the book very entertaining and great fun. It bought many a smile to my face and there are lots of laugh out loud moments. I recommend it!
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  • Topdropper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely superb. Had me laughing out loud.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2022
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    I’ve enjoyed Ben Jailler’s writing in Fly Culture since he appeared in the first edition and was delighted that he’d written a book. Fishing just happens to be the vehicle for his writing in this book but it’s not the star of the show. His wit, storytelling and sharp observations will appeal to angler and non-angler alike. Superb.
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  • RGF
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fishing without the cliches
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2022
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    A refreshingly original take on fishing and some of the more unusual places, people and figments of the imagination that the pursuit of the angle has inspired.
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