
Chalkstream Fly Fishing after the Mayfly
19 May 2020
It has been a strange old start to the English chalkstream fly fishing season. The winter had set us up perfectly with plenty of rain filling the aquifers and offering
19 May 2020
It has been a strange old start to the English chalkstream fly fishing season. The winter had set us up perfectly with plenty of rain filling the aquifers and offering
01 May 2020
With the start of May our thoughts would normally turn to great dry fly sport and one of the best months of the season. We are all hoping that it
24 March 2020
As ever by this time in March, we are desperate for our chalkstream fly fishing season to start especially with the River Anton looking so good on our Westfair Beat
30 October 2018
Dry fly fishing for me is my absolute favourite type of fishing because it is so visual and so technically challenging at times. Dry fly fishing for Grayling is even
28 August 2018
This week on the chalkstreams sees the final weed cut of the season on the River Test come to an end. The River Itchen cut finished last week and the
22 June 2017
Although temperatures have dropped from the dizzy heights of last week we can probably expect some further highs over the coming weeks as we head into high summer on the
13 June 2017
Chalkstream trout fly fishing does not finish with the end of the Mayfly hatches, indeed as the season progresses the fishing can get better and sometimes more challenging. The main
07 June 2017
Andy Jones, visiting Hampshire from Australia, contacted us during the famous mayfly hatches of the southern English chalkstreams looking to fit a day out on the River Test. With luck
30 May 2017
Some very cold and frosty nights at the beginning of the month to a blazing heatwave towards the end, the weather in May this year has been one of great
16 May 2017
Mayfly Time If any of our upwinged flies could ever be described as pretty it surely must be the little Iron Blue that hatches in May and then again in
25 April 2017
At the beginning of May our fly fishing thoughts turn towards the annual mayfly life cycle hatch and what opportunities it might bring. Will we catch the leviathan that has
04 April 2017
Springtime fly fishing on the Chalkstreams: It might be any number of things. The cacophony of birdsong at daybreak, the first Cowslip or primrose thrusting through the dead leaf debris,
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