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TM: What got you hooked on sea fishing?
JW: My passion was football but I wrecked the cartilage in my right knee. To put it right would have meant an operation and weeks off work. This wasn’t possible at the time as I was a self-employed carpet fitter with a young family, so I had to find a sport to fulfil my competitive nature. I lived by the sea at Pevensey Bay and enjoyed both boat and beach fishing as an occasional hobby; I decided to switch over and focus fully on sea fishing. It was the best thing I ever did as I took to it like a duck to water and I can still enjoy fishing from my boat and from the shore.
TM: What do you regard as your greatest achievement?
JW: The fact that I have been lucky enough to have successfully fished at a high level in all aspects of sea fishing, including deep sea, charter boats, dinghy fishing, light tackle, game fishing and shore fishing.
TM: You have been responsible for launching a number of successful angling magazines over the past 25 years. What initially started you writing about sea angling?
Sea angling was never featured in my local newspaper, the Eastbourne Herald, until I started putting in some match results and the odd
