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DRENNAN CU CATCHES OF THE WEEK ...

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

Phill Williams recounts his attempt to complete his lifelong angling bucket list with a 1000lb fish and looks at the challenge of catching a ‘grander’ in UK waters

Wayne Thomas looks back at some of the classic lures of yesteryear and asks whether modern lure design and technology is more about catching anglers than fish

Dave Lewis explains how an aborted bass fishing trip resulted in discovering a new method for taming specimen pollack from deep-water shore marks

David Mitchell travels through the night to experience Cornwall’s epic reef fishing