A crackdown on trout-tickling south of the Border has left Scots anglers in a guddle. Under new anti-poaching laws to be introduced in England and Wales, the traditional children's pastime of catching ...

LUDICROUSLY, the gentle art of tickling trout is to be outlawed in England and Wales under by-laws introduced by the Environment Agency. South of the Border, the childhood pursuit of tickling is to be ...

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FOR years Freddy Patterson was working on his extraordinary life story, reflecting on everything from his days as a kid guddling trout in the “Ratty Burn” to brutal jungle warfare with the Chindits in ...