Noto per essere l'ex detentore del record britannico con la cattura di una carpa di oltre 23 kg nel famoso bacino del Redmine pool (UK).
Opere The Secret Carp, Merlin Unwin Books 1992 () A Passion for Angling (with Rodger McPhail), BBC Books/Merlin Unwin Books 1993 () Casting at the Sun, Medlar Press limited edition 1986, Classics edition 2006 () The Deepening Pool, Unwin Hyman 1990 () Falling In Again, Merlin Unwin Books 1998 () Four Seasons, Medlar Press 1996, 2nd Edition 2008 () River Diaries, Medlar Press 1997, 2nd Edition 2010 () The River Prince, (Ed.) Medlar Press 1998, 2nd Edition 2009 () Shadows & Reflections, (Ed.) Medlar Press 1999, 2nd Edition 2010 () How to Fish, Hamish Hamilton 2006 () Out of the Blue, Hamish Hamilton 2008 () Night Walk, Collins 2012 () The Lost Diary, Unbound 2013 ()
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