I DON’T CAST PARTICULARLY well but on my third attempt, the mayfly pattern dropped onto the water just upstream of the trout on the edge reeds. The fly came round right over the fish, then it drifted up towards the surface, knocked it with its nose, then descended again.
I was fishing on the Itchen, just downstream from Twyford with Mark Hedges, the long-standing editor of . The river, he kept telling me, apologetically,
