Cod almighty

In the first of a new series celebrating our best-loved piscine species, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent salutes the elegant and reputedly magical Salmo trutta

Simon Smith reflects on the recent news that mackerel stocks are in deep trouble, as yet another species is brought to the brink of collapse by greed and incompetent management by politicians

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

Long believed to be a symbol of good fortune, the albatross has its own annual world awareness day on 19th June. As legend would have it, the bird embodies the souls of sailors lost at sea, and to har

Bass may be opportunistic feeders but the key to big fish success is tempting them with the dish of the day – as James Batty explains

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