In the wake of the foxhunting furore, a growing number of people have taken the bait and are now hooked - with equal tenacity - on a campaign against

cruelty to fish... a far cry from the classic sentiments of Izaac Walton's The Compleat Angler.

With an earthy stretch of the imagination, are worms eventually to be protected against the seasonal onslaught of fork and spade - not to mention the predatory early bird?

If so, heaven knows how we keen gardeners are going to wriggle out of that predicament.

-F R Harris, Hangleton Way, Hove