Falmouth made history in 2024 with the UK’s first Bluefin Tuna Championships. One year on, 23 boats and 120 anglers returned, chasing giants and glory off the Cornish coast. Tim Macpherson, takes us inside the drama of Britain’s fastest-growing big-game tournament

OUR MAN ON THE BANK

ISSUE 654 NOVEMBER 2025

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

As an island nation, the UK has a long and proud fishing history, a cultural identity that caused waves in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU. For a few days in May 2025 that passion resurfaced, when t

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