LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN.
I have always thought of my pheasant time, by which I mean the time for their release at High Park and for the work that belongs to it, as the main feature of late summer and early autumn. For years and years poults came to my pens right at the end of July or very early in August, and for the next six weeks or so their care was the chief focus of my attention.
It was a time to which I looked forward eagerly and, except when things went wrong,