Why I’m a sucker for perch

Dick Warner indulges us with the details of his latest fishing obsession.

I’ve been an angler all my life and I’ve fished for a huge range of species in salt and fresh water. But at different times in my life I’ve been obsessed by different kinds of fish — for a while it was fly-fishing for trout, before that pollock fishing but recently I’ve become very fixated on perch.

If you want to catch a particular species of fish it’s a good idea to learn as much about them as you can, so I’ve been studying perch. They have large eyes and huge mouths and this is because they’re predators. Once they reach a certain size they live almost exclusively by catching smaller fish.