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What's the price of a bottle of water, or a ready meal from the corner shop? One pound? Two ninety-nine? The real cost is probably more than you realise. That's because our addiction to plastic is responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters of the modern age: the build up of plastic in the world's oceans.

The national representative body for angling, the Angling Trust, has this week put its weight behind the legal challenge mounted by Goring Parish Council against South Oxfordshire District Council planners in a judicial review which is seeking to overturn the planning permission recently granted for a hydro-power scheme on Goring Weir.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Had I foregone my participation in the FM fish-in near Ross on Wye last Saturday I could now be reporting the day's events along with a few nice fishy-fotos, but I just had to fish didn't I?

It was this morning, our first proper, sizzling summer morning that I took the horn by the balls and ventured into the Welsh hills to investigate a patch of Ordnance Survey blue.

An estimated 60,000 rainbow trout are believed to have escaped from a fish farm and made it into a nearby river.

Many years ago I moved to Deal, a small seaside town on the east coast of Kent. It has one of the best fishing piers in the land with some features specifically designed with angling in mind. Having moved from the suburbs of London where I grew up this was a whole new world and, for me, an education in fishing: from little roach and bleak out of the Thames to something unimaginable back then - and much else besides.

We're all aware of those rare individuals who have an affinity with dogs and horses but I knew a fella who had an uncanny understanding of chub.

Simon Pettit had never lived up to the mild, thoughtful persona one might expect from one so named: 'Simon' had religious connotations while 'Pettit' was suggestive of shyness and diffidence, of a self-effacing individual at home with a reference book, a mug of tea and a chocolate hob-nob.

Ok, so it's a day early...more time to think of a line for this cracker.