Charles Rangeley-Wilson, angler, conservationist and traveller is The Field’s fishing correspondent, and contributes regularly to Gray’s Sporting Journal, America’s leading literary outdoor magazine. In 2000 he won the PPA (Periodical Publishers Association) ‘Specialist Features Writer of the Year’ Award, and in 2001 was shortlisted for IPC Media ‘Writer of the Year’ Award. He is the author of Somewhere Else and most recently The Accidental Angler, a series of ‘travelogues’ that were televised by the BBC in 2006. Rangeley-Wilson studied Fine Art and taught Art for ten years before becoming a writer. Now living in Norfolk, in 1997 Rangeley-Wilson was a founder of the Wild Trout Trust which operates to promote the restoration and conservation work on degraded rivers. It has 2000 members, and is supported by English Nature, the Environment Agency and the National Trust.

More information:

Review of The Accidental Angler by Theo Pike.

 Read a feature article by Rangely-Wilson for the Independent.