River Kennet

Each season the River Test and its tributaries undergo several weed cutting periods. This is necessary to help manage water flow and height as well as keeping the rivers open

Each season the River Itchen and its tributaries undergo several weed cutting periods. This is necessary to help manage water flow and height as well as keeping the rivers open

Each season the River Test and its tributaries undergo several weed cutting periods. This is necessary to help manage water flow and height as well as keeping the rivers open

Fly fishing on the River Kennet is another overlooked chalkstream for many. A tributary of the River Thames and known for fantastic coarse fishing lower down in can often seem

How many casts do you make on a days fishing on a chalkstream? In an ideal world, as many as the amount of fish you catch, that’s presented casts, not

The River Kennet is one of our favourite chalkstreams, it flows as main river and a complex series of carriers. Between Hungerford and Kintbury the river offers some wonderful trout

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

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

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

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

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

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,