■Distance: 5 miles/8km ■Time: 3 hours ■Grade: Moderate ...

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Rob Hardy joins members of Bishop Auckland & District Angling Club for a nocturnal pursuit of the River Wear’s monster sea-trout

In the early 1970s, I relied on a 1961 Austin Cambridge for weekend jaunts along the salty north Norfolk coast. “Relied” is probably the wrong word, as the car wasn’t exactly reliable. I would make a

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

This trip is confusing me. One moment I feel like I’m in New Zealand, surrounded by dense tree ferns in a damp and mossy glade above a waterfall. A couple of hours later I’m bombarded by ker-chings of