Once upon a time in the west

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

At the first Tweed Salmon Festival, our correspondent finds there is much to be optimistic about in the fishing world, even if Salmo salar continues to decline

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Paul Procter attends a beautiful trout stream in the Scottish Borders

I reckon that taking a break from specimen-hunting to go pleasure fishing is a tonic for the soul

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