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

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

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

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Four outstanding new titles for game-fishers to read this winter

Arthur Macdonald tells the story of six favourite Dabbler patterns, taken from his excellent new book, Modern Flies and Ancient Lochs