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

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Rob Hardy joins members of Bishop Auckland & District Angling Club for a nocturnal pursuit of the River Wear’s monster sea-trout

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