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Casting for a trout called Brutus at Castle ...

Catching one British record fish is the fishing achievement of a lifetime for most anglers. But when Mike Johnson bagged the firstever claim for a UK shore-caught halibut last year, it was his second British record fish. Richard Baker reports on how this remarkable achievement came about