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09 October 2020
Angling’s Biggest Summer for a Generation !
2020 has been a year like no other. We have all had to find a way of coping with a new way of life under the shadow of Covid-19. Thankfully there have been some silver lingings and one of them has been the re-emergence of angling as the countries favourite way of de-stressing, relaxing and enjoying the great outdoors. Dom Garnett explores how the summer of 2020 became fishing’s great renaissance.
There were points in the summer that maggots were selling out in tackle shops quicker than toilet rolls during lockdown !
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