Red bream returns

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

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

THE MASTERPLAN

It’s no longer necessary to venture to tropical waters in order to catch a monster tuna, says Jonathan Young, as he attempts to land a big-game fish in Falmouth Bay

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