For Glenda Powell, fly-casting instructor with Blackwater Salmon Fisheries, the impact of Covid-19 on angling, commercially and recreationally, has become starkly clear over the last two months.
On 12 March, Glenda and a group of committed fly-fishers were bound for Argentina, on a week-long trip to fish seatrout.
Having made it as far as Heathrow, the group boarded the plane for the final leg of their journey and waited as the plane taxied onto the runway.
“Just as we were settling in, with the airplane engines running even, the pilot stopped us in our tracks,” she said.
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