UK Fishing Guides

The chalkstream Mayfly fishing in and around Hampshire is now drawing to a close. Most fly fishers have been waiting since the end of last season for the infamous mayfly

Our chalkstream fly fishing season is now well underway, and the wet and cold winter has done wonders to our rivers in the south of England. Most rivers are seeing

Last weekend we saw temperatures in the chalk valleys rocket into the mid and high 20s, with it came a sharp kick start to spring and the long awaited spring

When talking chalkstream fly fishing, and someone mentions a migration, you automatically think salmon. A most impressive feat, these fish start their lives in freshwater, change their body to suit

Charles Jardine was born into a family of fly fishers and artists; his father being the late wildlife artist and respected salmon fisher: Alex Jardine. In 1976, after a near

The lesser known chalkstreams of Dorset offer a wonderful fly fishing experience, with the River Frome being the most notable. The Frome and its tributaries provide a rich habitat for

Trout in rivers spend all their lives facing upstream, everything about their shape, scales, gills, fins are perfectly adapted to do this, evolution has engineered this master piece! They can

Following on from Lisa Isles’ last fly fishing blog on Winter Grayling Fishing, we wanted to provide more detail as to what the fundamental differences are between French Nymphing and

Do you remember that last time you went fishing, and you saw that huge trout gorging on olives, and the trees, fences, wind, flow and everything else was against you!

The best thing about chalkstream fly fishing is surely seeing that fish come up to your dry fly, the anticipation sets in as he freezes in the flow directly under

Lisa started fly fishing at the age of 10 when after years of pestering her grandads and father to show her how to cast, little did she know…she was about

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