From landing hulking catfish on the Zambezi to talking tackle with Ted Hughes, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent looks back on seven colourful decades

DOM GARNETT – ONE MAN DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PLEASURE IN ANGLING

I feel privileged to have visited this most magical of lakes

THE BEST FISH YOU’VE LANDED THIS WEEK

The cold means nothing when the wolf of the waterways turns its dark eyes to your lure or deadbait – it’s time to tame the beast...

After nine years of circumnavigating the globe, the ‘old Seadog’ tells Laura Hodgetts he’s home to get patched up and a pension