I T WAS MEANT TO BE THE FLY ...

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

All the latest news from our local experts. The only monthly record of catches and news from the major fisheries of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland

I was 17, a trainee surveyor earning £5 a week. Faced with a week’s leave without much cash to spend, I decided to try hitchhiking with my mate Gordon. We started at the gates of Liverpool’s Stanley A

Your comments and opinion on game-fishing matters

After a quiet month in James Raymond waits for the arrival of the smolt-scoffing spurdogs, but only after his long-awaited trip to Norway