“i felt at home underwater”

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass

Before I realise what’s happening, the lid is off – and James Maclaine is pulling out a fistful of deep-sea anglerfish. I hadn’t been expecting him to plonk his bare hand inside the jar. I peer more c

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

Our historian Keith looks back 58 years to the tale of an intrepid sea angler who targeted big sharks from the shore

How did your career start? I had a tropical aquarium as a young adult, and began to wonder what kind of fish might be living in my local streams. I decided to find out by sampling streams with a dip n

With a season of winter storms approaching James Batty explains how to make the most of the great bass fishing that comes during or after a big blow