The first time I heard of Casting for Recovery, a fly fishing-based support programme for women who have been treated for breast cancer, I struggled to make the link. Why fishing?

That was before I interviewed Sue Hunter. Captain of the England Ladies fly fishing team in 2007, she had came to the sport after her second diagnosis of breast cancer eight years ago. “I needed to unwind and a friend suggested that I might find fly fishing a good way of relaxing. Before I started joining a few clubs I had never realised how popular it was,” she explains. “It was good exercise. It can be difficult to get moving properly after invasive surgery on your breast but I found that I could go fishing very soon afterwards. The arm action is the sort of gentle exercise you need and it’s far less of a chore than doing some of the formal exercises you are given in the clinic.”