RISE TO THE CHALLENGE

Stalking wild brown trout in a small riffling steam, flicking a dry fly in eager anticipation of a take and when they are not showing perhaps searching the deeper holes with a nymph. Learning to slow your actions moving slowly and quietly like nature itself so as not to spook your quarry. Searching out the likely lies then keeping low to avoid being seen, all the time trying to present and control the fly naturally in the most complex and yet intricately beautiful of casting environments, This is the challenge of small stream fishing.

So long as you remain low, not breaking the sky line with a silhouette you can often cast several times and still the fish will take and when they take there will be no mistaking it as the short line gives immediate contact.

Flicks and roll casts go hand in hand with conventional casting, make no mistake small streams will test and most importantly hone your skills.  A short self loading rod is a great help and a 6X tippet will help you retrieve most of those flies when the casting doesn't quite go to plan. The stronger tippet can also help hold a fish away from the many snags available to it in a small stream, it can be pretty explosive and exciting stuff.

It's not for beginners even the experienced can find the transition to small streams daunting, but with patience you’ll soon find your casts improving along with your skills and dexterity with the rod, you’ll be honing a lifetime skill that translates directly to delivering a fly naturally to smaller tight swims, the sort that, even on bigger rivers, often hold the biggest of fish.

This is a quiet and uninterrupted fishing in quiet and private landscape with the river set in a unique and beautiful part of the countryside. Tree lined, wooded and meandering open field beats provide a variety of challenges with wild garlic and bluebells lining the banks in spring, your only company may be the occasional wild deer kingfisher or buzzard but everywhere there are truly wild trout.