10 THINGS THAT SHAPED MY SEA FISHING

I STARTED SEA ANGLING IN THE TIDAL reaches of the River Usk around Newport in South Wales. Those of us who fished (most of us did) would save our pocket money and wages from paper rounds for essential items of tackle but other items, such as weights, we would make ourselves.

I left school at 16 and joined the Merchant Navy, and for the next four years I was rarely at home. In 1981, when I finished my navigation cadetship, I decided I did not want a career away at sea and got a job as a deckhand on a Bristol Channel pilot boat.

With my interest in sea angling and boat angling in