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Emiratis throw cash around in quest for true love
In Abu Dhabi’s sport ‘strategy’, the F1 race is meant to be a tourist ad. Sport must help keep the emirate rich forever, writes Simon Kuper
Clay shooting in Derbyshire
Ladies’ training day at Doverdige Clay Sports Club teaches the etiquette behind this tradition-bound and thoroughly male sport. Rose Jacobs learns the basics
The music men who are hooked on angling
The driving forces behind an independent record label have taken their love of fishing far beyond lazing by the water with a can of beer to hand
In search of giant trout in River Tweed
Though the Scottish river’s run of salmon has been disappointing, it has produced huge specimens of overlooked species such as the trout, sea-trout and grayling
Editorial: Benson RIP
While Benson the carp may have swum across the River Styx to meet her maker, the sport which she so amply served still lives and spawns
Hooking a tench with a Labour MP
That Martin Salter, MP for Reading West, is willing to get up before dawn to go fishing is no surprise: he is parliament’s angling spokesman
Sea fishing is not for the faint-hearted
One of the thrills of this extreme type of angling is that when the rod tip bends over, it’s impossible to know what will be attached to the other end
The fine art of fly tying
Feathers fall off and tinsel spirals out of control: the game angler’s favourite winter pastime is an elaborate exercise in recreating the frustrations of fishing
Walked-up shooting through woodland
This undeniably exciting sport is not about the number of birds killed, but about savouring that rare perfect shot and remembering the ones that got away
Fishing for the elusive ‘lady of the stream’
Winter’s bleak skies and short, dark days are good for spotting the ghostly grayling, which has the ability to disappear in even the shallowest, clearest water
Fallow deer stalking in Ireland
Tracking a nervous animal silently through the damp woods of Galway in an Irish autumn, with only a few seconds to set up a shot, makes shooting driven game seem like kindergarten
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