Fishing near Manchester, England

Greater Manchester sits at the heart of a dense network of canals, reservoirs, rivers and commercial fisheries. Long shaped by its industrial past, the region's waterways are recovering — the Irwell, Mersey and Tame are cleaner than they have been in generations, while the canal network that once served the mills now provides some of the most accessible coarse fishing in the North West. Angling clubs are central to how fishing is organised here, and day-ticket commercial fisheries fill the gaps.