That Strange Alchemy: Pheasants, Trout and a Middle-Aged Man

""I need to start thinking like a shooter, for shooters and fishers, even though they are often the same person, think very differently."

So writes author Laurence Catlow as his fishing season on the lonely northern rivers comes to an end, and he prepares for his next shooting season on his own small shoot on the edge of the Pennines.

Many sportsmen enjoy both shooting and fishing, and in That Strange Alchemy, Catlow examines

- fishing and shooting memories and why they differ
- why both sp...