A helping hand for wild trout
Feb 13, 2020
4 minutes
WRITTEN BY SHAUN LEONARD
Somewhere in deepest Dorset during the mid-1990s, a car carrying two men known to regular readers of , Charles Rangeley-Wilson and Richard Slocock, was the scene for the creation of an esoteric-sounding organisation: the Wild Trout Trust (WTT). These two chaps saw a need for a practical, hands-on body, akin to Trout Unlimited in the US, the purpose of which would be to advise and help landowners and fishing clubs to better manage their rivers (and lakes) for wild trout and the many plants and other animals that rely on naturally functioning waters. Thus, it came to be, with the
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