Gamekeeper

Alan Edwards is conservation manager at Bywell, a Purdey Gold Award estate in Northumberland

I must have been daydreaming when my line tightened. I was startled into action as the unmistakable tug of a fish on my line was swiftly followed by a swirl down the pool and then an enormous eruption as my first salmon of the season attempted to escape.

It’s unusual for me to think of anything other than fishing whilst on the