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UK & IRELAND SPECIALIST SPECIES HUNTING

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

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

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

In the first of a new series celebrating our best-loved piscine species, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent salutes the elegant and reputedly magical Salmo trutta

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