David Pilkington first stepped through the doors of the Arundell Hotel in 1968 to help out on a fishing day and has been there ever since.
I learn about what took him there, what he has seen and the changes he has witnessed both on the river and in fly fishing.
As we sit and talk in the new tackle shop I discover why the local streams mean so much to him and why he has never felt the need to stray far from them.
I've had numerous requests to ask him along and I thoroughly enjoyed catching up to learn his story.