From landing hulking catfish on the Zambezi to talking tackle with Ted Hughes, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent looks back on seven colourful decades

Fred de Fossard

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I feel privileged to have visited this most magical of lakes

“SWITCHING FROM THE FLOAT TO A LEGER PRODUCED ...

DOM GARNETT – ONE MAN DETERMINED TO KEEP THE PLEASURE IN ANGLING