of the oldest fly fishing club in england, the amwell magna in hertfordshire. and that is what sparked his campaigning. i began to realise there had been a big issue involving the drop in the volume of water in the river. and it is a conversation that had been going on with the environment agency and local water company for 15, 16 years. i could not comprehend why anybody was still talking about something 16 years later. and, at that point, as i now describe it, ijust got an itch and, stupidly, i scratched that itch. as it turns out, every time i scratch that itch, ijust end up with a bigger itch. he means the more he researched the issues facing britain's rivers, the more serious he realised the problems are. every single river in the country is polluted.