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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 01:24 pm:   

Does anybody know about this book, DEAD BAIT 2, from Severed Press (March 2011)? It's an anthology of stories about fishing and what horrors may come of it. Ramsey is listed among the Authors. Is Ramsey's a new tale or possibly a reprint, as far as anybody can tell? And which title? Thanks, anyway!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.215
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 01:47 pm:   

Fishing? Fishing?

Maybe Ramsey's 'Raised by the Moon' is in it.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 01:56 pm:   

Nicholas Royle's 'The Crucian Pit' ought to be.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.84.113
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 06:04 pm:   

Perhaps a few chapters from Ramsey's "Pact of the Pater Nosters" would fit... Or perhaps "The Stages of the Cod".
Or "The Sustenance of Hake"...
Or...
Yes...
Even "Bait"!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 129.11.76.215
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 06:58 pm:   

Rod-erick Usher?
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 61.216.200.93
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 07:29 pm:   

'The Plaice That Must Die'?

Joel, I thought of 'The Crucian Pit' as soon as I heard of this anthology - great story.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.185.17.198
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 12:54 am:   

The One Safe Plaice, Huw? You missed that trick!
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.24.19.58
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 08:58 am:   

The Ramsey story could be 'The Inhabitant of the Lake'.

Can't find a pun in that. Maybe I'm taking the theme too littorally.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 09:57 am:   

The Inhabitant of the Hake, perhaps?

The Dace That Must Die?

Looking Trout? (I can hear the groans already.)

End of the Line?

Moving away from the landlord's ouevre, I'd recommend anything by Theodore Sturgeon.

Masterpieces of tench-sion, every one.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:04 am:   

From the introduction the publishers would probably have paid me not to write. I believe they were going to ask the actor Nicholas Brendon- after all, he used to play the part of Zander...

'These tales will have you perch-ed on the edge of your seat while the rudd-y gore flows. Whether you're chub-by like me or thin as a s-pike, a sense of creeping terror will enc-roach on you. You'll feel no need to carp about the quality afterwards. They truly are the bream of the crop.'

Not that the bream is considered a particularly fine fish, you understand, but...

(Bestwick is shot.)
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.147.143.35
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:12 am:   

oh cod, all these fishy puns are giving me a haddock. I've halibut as much as I can take.
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:18 am:   

But they missed. And I missed a couple more, so my non-existent introduction might have continued:

'I note there's a freshwater fish called an Ide, so I can see why this anthology wasn't published last month. But I'm sure there'll be a number of suitably 'bleak' stories, so you won't f-eel cheated. No reason to ruffe-le any feathers or leave any bitterling-ering taste in anyone's mouth.

'Sadly I couldn't find anything to do with the stickleback (which leaves me in a state of high gudgeon.) Nevertheless, I'm sure many of you will have come with possible suggestions as to exactly what I can do with the stickleback, especially if it's the fifteen-spined variety, as you may feel I've spent far too much time by now talking utter pollocks.

'Still, if I've managed to salmon up any enthusiasm for this worthy anthology, my time has been well spent. I won't, however, go so far as to have my hair cut into a mullet, no matter how much anyone might want me to, so there's no point pouting.'
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 10:40 am:   

Weber- sorry if I made you crabby. But you'll be glad to know I can't kipper it up any longer, so you're saithe now. The whiting's on the wall (flipped it too hard when I was pan-frying it) and it would be coley in appropriate to continue in this vein. I rarely dab-ble in puns, but when I start it's very hard to stop, and I end up putting my heart and sole into it, till people can't believe what they're herring from me. I can end up downright bullhead-ed.

I'll stop now before I begin to flounder, and giving you a megrim. I don't want you muttering about what a bass-tard I've been. You've been brill.

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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.24.131
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 10:09 am:   

Glad all these puns have appeared in the Net.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.58
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:20 am:   

Stop it the shark to my system is too much
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.52
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:20 am:   

Has anyone actually thought to answer Giancarlo's question by the way?
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.42
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 11:22 am:   

Oh and Simon - on yer pike
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.209.217
Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 - 03:45 pm:   

Alright, I'll sling my hook. Just trying to be a ray of sunshine around here. Ah well, you have to take the roughy with the smooth, I suppose... I'll stop barbel-ling now. Promise.
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.189
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 11:30 am:   

Giancarlo - Still waiting for my contributor copy, but when it comes, I'll post what Ramsey's story is.
Annoyingly, I can't find a full TOC for this anywhere on the interwebs, just a pre-publication one in which Ramsey's story is still "TBC".
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 95.75.160.155
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 01:12 pm:   

Thanks, Matthew!
I'm thinking to buy the book anyway but I would be glad of that information. I am hooked by the eccentricity of the theme!
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.189
Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 01:42 pm:   

It's not specifically fishing, just aquatic creature horror. Mine's about deranged walruses in Greenland.
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.194
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 01:45 pm:   

Got my copy at last. Ramsey's story is "Raised by the Moon"

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