When Terry Lawton is not writing, he is a passionate fisherman who fly fishes primarily for trout but also for pike and grayling, at home and abroad.

He is a contributor to the on-line fly fishing magazine Fish & Fly www.fishandfly.com writing articles, reviewing tackle and books and answering visitors’ questions on all  aspects of fly fishing.

He has had articles published in leading UK magazines including Fly Fishing & Fly Tying and Trout and Salmon and in magazines in Australia and the Czech Republic. He has fished a number of times in Sweden - including in the Arctic in Swedish Lapland - for trout, Arctic char, grayling and pike. He ties all his own flies and enjoys building fly rods too.

His first book, Nymph Fishing, A History of The Art and Practice was published in England and the USA in November 2005. Then in May, 2007, his most recent book Fly Fishing on Rivers and Streams was published by New Holland Publishers (in hardback) and in paperback by Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill in the USA.

He lives in Norfolk where he is the secretary of The Bintry Mill Trout Fishery on the river Wensum. In 1999 he caught his biggest UK fish there: a wild brown trout that weighed 4lb 2oz, on a home-tied, copper head Sawyer Pheasant Tail nymph.