Fishy days and stag nights

NDC

Twenty years ago, I was lucky enough to spend some time autumn stag hunting on Exmoor. For a few seasons, I combined this with a late-summer holiday and came to see the moor in a completely different light. If you’re properly horsed and follow someone in a very battered bowler hat, it is possible to avoid the contours and watch the most wonderful sport from vantage points that would be breath-taking even without the music of staghounds echoing up the coombe.