"It’s truly hard for non-anglers to realise the enormous waves of emotion that big fish landed and big challenges achieved provoke. Imagine this: one of your dearest friends catches the fish of a lifetime, a massive 98lb golden mahseer from a river deep in Southern India. It’s a fish he’s just wanted so long. He begins to cry. You begin to cry. We all begin to cry. Tears of the most profound sort - a mixture of relief, of congratulation and of sheer, unadulterated joy.

It happens again. Tom – perhaps forty plus years older - is struggling. Then, in one blissful morning he lands four mighty mahseer. Four fish for over a 150lbs in weight. Again, our emotions over-wash. This is fishing at its very peak. It’s like achieving a summit, a piscatorial Everest. The beauty of the fish. The magnitude of the success. As a kid, starting out on an angling life this is how you dreamed one day it just might be."