Fishing reports

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

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

Come midnight on June 16 I’ll be making my first cast