My association with Shooting Times has been long and happy, as I have enjoyed the magazine for well over 40 years. During that time, many great sporting writers have graced its pages with their work and their names are forever etched in my memory — Gough Thomas, Colin Willock, Fred J Taylor and John Humphreys. All were formative influences on my younger self, but being a fanatical young salmon angler, it was the articles penned by Arthur Oglesby that held a particular fascination for me.
“I travelled through his writing and my own imagination”
Fishing the waters of the River Ribble and its tributary, the Hodder, I travelled through Oglesby’s writing and my own imagination to the banks of the Vosso in Norway, with its great slab-sided salmon and breathtaking scenery. It would be many years
