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Bagging that trout and firing the gun

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN.

There were two days in April when I drove home from fishing the Tees with an empty bag. Usually this means I drive home feeling frustrated, because in most circumstances I regard fishing days without fish as days of failure and disappointment. You may have guessed that on the two days in question it was somehow different. It was indeed different, and there were two important reasons.

The first of them was that on both occasions I drove home from the Tees feeling that the

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