Thanks to Field Day reader Jack who emailed me after I mentioned Raymond Carver to say that lots of fine poets have been fisherman. He pointed to Ted Hughes, highlighting in particular the poem Pike.
I was given a stuffed pike for a 21st birthday present. Taxidermists, I found out at the time, get upset if you use the word 'stuffed' - they prefer 'mounted'.
There again, 'birders' don't like to be called 'twitchers' but no one listens to them...