I've been fishing once in my life. When I was about 16 or so, a friend of may father's got together a small group of friends (including father and me) to go out on to the waters outside Barrow-in-Furness in a small fishing boat. We were given rods and paternosters - which is a long, vertical, metal rod with several horizontal rods leading off it at different angles. Each lateral rod is baited separately, and then the whole device is lowered over the side while the boat is at anchor.

It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny and calm. Down went my paternoster - and up it came with several lovely "flatties". That carried on all day, and we had a good evening gutting and freezing the catch. We fried a few as well and they were delicious.

I have a local friend who fishes for sea trout from his boat off Seaford Head in Sussex. I maintain his website - and he pays me in trout from his freezer. Good deal!