These prolonged bouts of dry weather can affect fish. Where water levels fall, low dissolved oxygen levels can put fish at risk,...

Did a half day instruction today with new member Chris Hawkins on beat F. Chris was interested in learning some nymphing techniques. He...

Relatively clean site across the board this spring. Moderate numbers and diversity of riverfies and Gammurus Pulex levels. No marked...

Evidence of poaching was found at 14 Hatches on 15th June. A stop net was found bundled up, hidden in the bush and has been taken away...

After a months locked down, in the ensuing three weeks our keepers managed to check and open up all the beats, strimming all the paths...

We stocked beats F and G with 50 today and H and I with 21 all at Quidhampton. We added to the stocking at Barford St Martin with 21 on...

We are now allowed to fish weighted nymphs on our waters. A practice which is often frowned upon by Chalk-stream purists but if you want...

Another visit to Wylye village yesterday. Fished from 2.30 - 6pm. Weather cloudy with odd spot of rain, light breeze. River low and quite...

Access - all our beats have now been checked out after the winter and late start to the season; the keepers have checked all the stiles...

Fished beat L at Wylye Village yesterday from 3pm till 7pm. Weather was cloudy with a moderate downstream wind and considerably colder....

Report from our river manager Bryan 25.05.20: “Comments have been made about the water quality of the River Wylye and Nadder. Having paid...

This account is from fellow member Patrick Heaton- Armstrong. Today was an opportunity, at long last, to take Lynne with me so that she...

In my previous post I spoke about how, when we cast, the fly line unrolls in the shape of a loop. The loop has three components - a...

We don’t cast fly lines, we unroll them in the shape of a loop. As the fly line unrolls it takes our leader and therefore our fly with...

The roll cast has many uses but it’s main one is allowing us to make a cast when there is limited room behind us. We try to create a D...

Following on from my first blog on “Get a grip”,are the pros and cons of each grip. Thumb on top: Pros - Thumbnail acts as pointer. Want...

In all sports when we hold a bat, club, racket etc we need a good grip. In fly fishing how we grip the fly rod is just as important....

I’m not talking about trying to get close to your first girlfriend in the back seats of the local Roxy. I’m talking about the annoying...

Why not inspire yourself by visiting Dave MacPhail's magnificent instructional videos? If you don't have quite the right dubbing or...