BLASTS FROM THE PAST

My first front cover was of Rodney White with a wreck pollack of 19lb published in 1974, and with its sister publication a further 115 covers were to follow. The emergence of the Decca Navigator in the mid 1960s led to catches previously unimagined and a constant rewriting of the British Record List.

Boat category record fish statistics show just three per cent of the skippers engaged in the charter boat industry provided anglers with the opportunity to set a UK record. Those operating in the waters of the south west were the most successful