Chris does seem to live an idylic life in his cottage in the woods. It wouldn't suit everyone for he appears to have cut himself off from the 21st century he seems to despise.
According to an interview I read in "Loafer" magazine he cuts a sad and isolated figure at times-his wife has departed-leaving him with his children in his woodland cottage not far from his beloved Hampshire Avon. Apparently, he no longer fish's to the extent he used to, but that may have more to do with the parental responsibilies he now finds himself with than a waning desire to catch.
He is without doubt though the most naturally gifted and evocative angling writer of his generation . Someone all angling writers (my humble self included) look up as the standard bearer.
Whatever his fall out with Waterlog, the magazine is the poorer without his erudite contributions.
