SA: You’ve been involved in sea fishing for a long time – what got you hooked on it all those years ago?
JH: My grandad taught me to coarse fish on the River Trent. Then I switched to beach fishing when the family moved to Suffolk. Since we lived close to Bawdsey, sea fishing seemed the natural choice. The cod boom began when I was a teenager and like so many others I got hooked on the sport.
SA: What was it that encouraged you to take up tournament casting?
Catching cod meant learning to cast a long way, and that was my focus. Encouraged by the great Leslie Moncrieff, we younger fishermen felt restricted by the old beach ways and began working on our own ideas which eventually morphed into
