"Coarse fishing usually takes place in rivers. Everything you catch you put back, unlike game or sea fishing. We usually catch roach, perch, bream, carp, tench, eels, gudgeon and pike.

Everyone who wants to go coarse fishing over the age of 12 must have a rod licence from the Environment Agency. A junior licence for those between 12 and 16 costs about £5, concessionary licences are about £11 and a full licence is around £22.

You must then get the permission of a fishing club, commercial business or landowner to fish a particular stretch of river or lake.

I'm a member of the Ynys Môn Angling Association and we charge full members about £40 a year to join. You receive a licence which permits you to fish on our stretches of bank, all of which are patrolled by bailiffs.

For example, our club has a licence to fish 500 yards along the banks of Rhosneigr's Maelog Lake - the rest is owned by another four owners. This is usual practice. You can get a day licence from a club or commercial business too, if you're just visiting the area.

You can go coarse fishing all year round. Although it's most popular during the summer months, the pike are most prolific during the winter. I really enjoy it. I used to love playing golf, but as I'm now disabled I went back to fishing because it's more static.

The club has specially built wheelchair pegs at many of the fishing locations such as at Breakwater Park, Nantonog and Tacan lake. Over 30 per cent of our club members are disabled - it's a great sport for everyone.

We have nine coaches at the club and we go up and down north Wales showing people how to fish. We helped teach about 2,500 Scouts and Guides at the Royal Welsh Show last year and we've started working with local schools to encourage young people to fish. We start off with lessons on how to put a rod together, how to tie hoops and floats, shoot the line up and, if there's a tennis court or field available, how to cast. We then go onto the riverbank and hopefully all this falls into place! Some teachers came with us and we all had a great time because everyone caught something.

There are a few match fishermen within the club who like a bit of competitive fishing. This is great, if only to meet others in the club - the only time I might see someone's face is when I stick their photo on their licence.

We have an away league within the club where we travel no more than 100 miles from home, a winter league which is no more than 40 miles away and a home league, where we stick to the rivers and lakes on Anglesey. The winner is judged on the weight of their catches. Then we have a big presentation dinner every Christmas.

We have entered the Clubman competition, run by the Angling Times which is UK-wide. We've only got past the first round once. We've got two young people on the Welsh coarse fishing team who represented us in Croatia last year.

More people go fishing than go to the football - it's hard to believe but it's true. Give it a go!"