Do you want to know how to outwit the wiliest of trout or where best to chase barbel, chub, perch and pike? Then look no further than the May issue of The Field, which is our fishing special. Roger Field lifts the lid on how to hook a bargain at specialist fishing auctions, while Janet Menzies reveals not just capital fishing experiences but also London’s other country sport offerings.

Miles Malone talks shooting schools and where game shots can bust clays in the off season, and Lady Anne Glenconner recalls grand shooting parties in her childhood home of Holkham.

Madeleine Silver celebrates canine companions that help make us: our first dogs, as Tessa Waugh praises the native ponies and the role they play in conservation. Looking back 80 years from VE Day, Allan Mallinson explains that the German surrender that led to peace in Europe was a complex matter.

We’ve got dazzling heritage tulips, the inexorable rise of padel, making a night of it in Newmarket’s Jockey Club Rooms plus all your favourites.