Again an update on the progress and background to where Pike Online is going. Whilst the main day to day employment prevents any full time work on Pike Online, there are opportunities to continue to work on projects that link into it between the regular wage making work.

One of the features on the site was to evaluate you, the visitor's preferences for the style of presentation for the Rig pages, and a poll was set up on the frot page to see what you thought. It looked very much like there was a preference from those who voted, for a black background with white texts, however in the last week or two that has been turned around and there is as much of a dilemmma, black or white. The option I have is to give the poll till the end of November to see if I can tempt a few more of you to vote for your preference in background and then I will adopt the preferred choice in December. So vote if you have want one or the other.

On to one more part of the sites development and this is another exclusive for the PikeOnline visitor, at least in the short term, I have set up a new and secondhand bookstore to allow me a means of selling a selection of the angling books that have been displaced from my own collection to any one who is looking for top quality, mainly unread or opened 1st editions from many authors that have been writing since the late 70's, early 80's. There are also some much older books that I have picked up during the many hours given to browsing in small back street bookshops around the country.

I have to admit that many were bought for the sake of building the collection and often 2 or 3 copies of a single book have been purchased. I make no bones about it, they are all an investment and I shall be sitting on many for a lot longer, but space demands action and it would seem selfish to hold onto books some new and enthusiastic collector might like to own.

The initial books are from a collection of books I personally wrote back in the late 80's for Crowood Press and are from a stock I purchased in 1995 and which have remained in the box they came from the wholesaler till just recently. So if you are looking for an 'as new' unread copy of Introduction to Pike Fishing or Introduction to Carp Fishing, as a gift,  for a collection ir just to read, then take a look at the Bookstore here.

As I work through valuations and costs for delivery etc, the books I have for sale will be loaded into the shop, whilst the current two books are available in reasonable numbers, the next books will be single copies and if you are looking for one of them do make sure you get on it first, either by buying it or reserving it to prevent losing out. Any way take a look.

Find the new PikeOnlne New and Secondhand Bookstore here

Enjoy

David