Very much so, greenie. I have just listened to the programme again and, as a near life-long sea-trouter myself (day and night), I can tell you that it gets not only sea-trouting "in one" but also much of the magic that draws us to water repeatedly, whatever we may fish for.
I never met Tom, but I did know the famous / infamous man who lived in the "Cragg Cottage" farmhouse that the pair walked past to get to the river at the start of the programme. He moved to my village in Wales in the mid 1980s; we lived just 100 yards apart, nodded at each other whenever we saw one another in the village, only getting to talk, then talk fishing over a drink (not wise on my part, as the man had hollow legs), after he had given a talk to a local Angling Association and I had given one a month or two later.
Hugh Falkus.
Good to see that Tom has been recognized for something much more than mere fishing, though. A far nicer and more rounded chap by the sounds of it.
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As with sea-trout so with steelhead -
Steelhead: Intriguing wanderers of the Northwest and Idaho | Fishing | Idahostatesman.com
Together with Atlantic salmon, they are intriguing wanderers, their behaviour and timings often differing markedly from river to river. Oh, but when all your instincts and knowledge and calculations and hunches put you in the right place at the right time and the fish are flying all over the river ripping line off your reel!
