I mostly fish for sheer pleasure nowadays. Past exploits would include: National Junior Coarse Champion, 1963 (weighed in a heavier bag than any of the seniors); Penn Masters Boat Championships ‘runner up’ 2001 and 2003; Alan …

World Boat Team Champion 2006. World Team Silver 2005 & 2007. European Line Class Champion 2007. NFSA Wessex PM Champion seven times. Double NFSA Wessex Champion of Champions winner.

Achievements: Winning the Southend Boat Open comp as a junior angler three times on the trot – including the biggest cod of the comp for the same three years, beating all the adults – including a …

Fishing achievements include: Opening up the Scottish porbeagle shark fishery in Caithness by landing the first Scottish porgie outwith the Northern Isles. Fifteen caps for EFSA Scotland. Several major open competition wins. My first garfish at …

Author of “The Codling Crouch”. And I've caught a few codling over the years!

I am 44 years old and have lived on the Isle of Wight all my life and am therefore a ‘Caulkhead’. I began shore fishing in 1976 with my father and fished club and local competitions, …

A member of WFSA boat team for 5 years until I took a break from International competition to concentrate on my charter boat business. Best result to date was helping Wales to its highest placing of …

I list my personal bests/angling achievements as: a 165lb shore-caught Bronze Whaler shark; a 39lb cod from the boat; overall second- place at the Surfcast Wales International 2007

I'm a journalist with the Dundee morning paper, The Courier, and also The Sunday Post. For something like 15 years I wrote a weekly sea angling column for The Courier's sister paper, The Evening Telegraph …

My angling career started in coarse fishing. Born in Oxfordshire, where I was introduced to the sport at aged five, catching Perch in the Thames. In the early 90’s, a move to Devon changed switched me …