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

FROM CABLE TO TABLE

Jim looks back through his angler’s log book from the 1970s and is shocked to be reminded how many people turned out for the shore competitions fifty years ago

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

Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

Keith recalls the early adoption of imitation baits, and his own initial experiences…