Gareth Purnell

Gareth Purnell, an award winning angling journalist, is the current editor
of Total Coarse Fishing magazine and former editor of Improve Your Coarse
Fishing, Midland Angler and Southern Angler. He was named Angling Writer of
the Year by his peers in 1999 and runs the popular total-fishing.com
website. He is an international angler who has competed in 11 of the last 12
world championships and is author of several books on angling, including The
Concise Encyclopaedia of Fishing.