Fished from age of about 9 - used to do Aston ponds / greasbro dam etc. Gave up for golf for years then a mate got me carp fishing. Did get into it for a few yrs - went France : Canada etc but after spending a full week fishing 18 hrs a day two yrs on the trot : spending silly money on gear and not a single bite - bawlax to it and jacked it.

I live 250 yds from the sea now but dont fish - to me it?s brutal and I don?t like the cruelty of it. Coarse fishin similar but generally with care and they do get to go back to their fishy mates !

The Mortimer an Whitehouse programme does however give more to the whole friendship , countryside tranquility and peace of sittin by the watter

And away !!!!!