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

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

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

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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

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