Exploring the author's struggle with the lived experience of fishing and his desire to swap places with the men he sees fishing from a train window.
If you have any interest in fishing, the works of great writers from Hemingway to Ted Hughes amount to a glowing review on Tripadvisor. But for a long time, I struggled with what might be called the lived experience of the sport. There was a bright trout stream in Devon where my brother and I tried our luck with a fishing rod, his latest nine-day wonder. And there were day trips on wallowing boats with their restful perfume of diesel and mackerel guts.
Kids from around our way spoke of a place called the Stewponds. It didn’t sound very enticing: perhaps it was the faint echo of Stig of the Dump about it. Newsagents carried titles devoted to angling. The front page always showed someone smiling tightly and holding their catch, as chunky as a prize-fighter’s belt. Fishing seemed to be about speechless men at the water’s edge with Thermos flasks and squirming Tupperware. Now I catch sight of these men from the window of a train and wish I could swap places with the
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