Tom Fort is a lifelong fisherman. With his love of the sport there grew a profound curiosity about the lives and habits of fish and their world. As a fishing correspondent for the Financial Times, he has written a huge amount not just about fishing, but the places fish live. Tom has travelled all over the world to pursue this fascination. He even wrote a whole book about the freshwater eel and its biology and life cycle and the people who fished and fish for them.