John Andrews

John Andrews aka ‘Andrews of Arcadia’ deals in Vintage Fishing Tackle For the Soul from his stall at Spitalfields Antiques Market and from the website www.andrewsofarcadia.com. He spends his life searching auction houses, car boot sales, alleyways and by-ways, street markets and backwaters, damp cellars and dusty attics, lay-bys and the classifieds for old boxes of fishing tackle. When he is not out searching he writes for www.caughtbytheriver.net and for a number of other publications including the Old Town Evening Star.

At Port Eliot he will be reading alongside angling writers Chris Yates, Luke Jennings and Charles Rangeley-Wilson. During the festival you’ll be able to find him in ‘The World of Andrews of Arcadia’, a tented installation of Vintage Fishing Tackle including the Lost Angling Library of Arcadia which will be situated in the Caught by the River Field.