Ospreys View

As mentioned in an earlier blog post the recent August edition no. 2 of the FlyMage ezine carried an article of mine all about fishing the famous English mayfly hatch on that doyen of English chalkstreams - the River Test.
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So a new season has begun on my local trout stream where I have rejoined the local syndicate - The Balcombe Fly Fishers. I have had 3 evenings there already this month and had it all to myself each time save for the local wildlife.
The pheasants are the most obvious. This years crop of game [...]

A recent business meeting with a fellow fly fisher left me with a day to kill at one of the UK’s premier trout fisheries - Avington in Hampshire. Always a good idea to hold business meetings at top fisheries I think!
Not for me though the huge quality trout for whom the fishery is rightly known [...]