Quaaludes, aquarium heists and murder: fishing’s wildest scandals

From Neanderthals guzzling sea snails to Gazza defusing a police manhunt by handing Raoul Moat his tackle box, as long as humans have eaten food, they have fished.

But while the word “fishing” conjures images of henpecked husbands with corned beef on their waders, the world of angling is a sordid cess pit of theft, murder and bestiality.

So take a perch, get your tackle out and grasp your rod tight. 

As we lure in the wildest scandals in FISHING…