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In the heat of one of the hottest days of the summer Dave T. filled his card at Bullington Manor with a superb grayling, a brown for the pot and a very greedy tiddler. #chalkstreams #flyfishing #rivertest #pinkshrimp

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An evocative photo diary of a day on the River Avon from Peter Linders visiting the home of Frank Sawyer from The Netherlands. Thanks you Peter #flyfishing #chalkstreams #riveravon

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A superb brown from the Upper Test at Bullington Manor on a fine summer June day.

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A monster afternoon mayfly hatch on the River Coln in Gloucestershire over the weekend with the fish and angler Sam Brown who put it all together. #chalkstream #fishing #flyfishing

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A perfect Sunday, with the perfect fly and the perfect fish on the River Allen in Dorset

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How green is my river valley. The upper Test at dusk last night. Barely a breath of wind, with the occasional Mayfly popping. Just enough to encourage the trout, with a French Partridge, Grey Wulff and Thomas Mayfly doing the business in rapid succession. #flyfishing #fishing #chalkstreams #angling #bepartofthechaos

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We have all been here. That moment of doubt. Is there a knot in my tippet? Is it strong enough? Is the hook fully set? Why is my friend being so useless with the net? But eventually, unconfined joy as all doubts are erased. #flyfishing #fishing #angling #chalkstreams

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The Hatch is On ... to be sung to the beat of Glenn Frey's 1984 classic The Heat is On. River. Fish. Mayfly. The River Itchen looking magnificent. #bepartofthechaos #flyfishing #mayfly #chalkstream #angling #fishing

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Two brace of beautiful browns at Qing Ya Xi on the River Itchen. Good way to open your 2024 fishing account. Nice work, John! https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/chalkstream/itchen.htm#qing

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What a place to catch your first fish! Blue skies all the way at Nether Wallop Mill #flyfishing #ChalkStream #angling https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/flyfishingschool.htm

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350 YEARS OF ANGLING HISTORY I am sitting in the cool writing this, on the hottest day of the year, at the round table at the very centre of Charles Cotton’s Fishing Temple. The oak doors are open. Outside we are on the cusp of autumn, that moment when leaves start to turn from pliant green to brittle brown. The fall is still someway off but, despite the unseasonal heat, you can sense change in the air.

A blackbird is my sole company his melodic, whistling call percolating into the stone room, For the most part he observes me from a nearby bush but, every so often, he alights to the triple tier of the entrance steps to get a better look at me, cocking his head sideways, to pretend with some birdlike deceit that he is not looking at me. We both know he is.

I would also like to pretend that my moment was an exact facsimile of when Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton both communed in this very building, built in 1674 by Cotton, a large and wealthy owner in these parts of Derbyshire, to celebrate their combined love of fishing. By this time The Compleat Angler, originally published in 1653, was already into its fifth edition, with the original thirteen chapters expanded to twenty one with Cotton adding the fly fishing sections. It would go on to be the second most reprinted book of all time behind the King James Bible.

Read more https://conta.cc/3sRllCV#flyfishing#angling

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A Deal Every Day for August on the best chalkstreams with @fishingbreaksuk. Check out 2- for-1 and Half Price offers on the Rivers Test, Itchen and Nadder. Book online.  https://conta.cc/44MDMqj    #flyfishing #fishing #angling #chalkstreams

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Not a bad little spot to sip a coffee waiting for the first rise of the day #flyfishing #angling #chalkstreams https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/chalkstream/test.htm#dunbridge

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It is not always about trout! Our diverse fishing guru John Bailey guided Ron & Will Chapman to catch under a float this amazing 10lb 4oz barbel that took 59 minutes to land. It was quite the day despite rain and canoeists with five other chunky barbel and 30+ chub. https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/herefordshire.htm #angling

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Great selection of flies tied by that maestro of the vice @nigel_nunn for the @fishingbreaksuk July feedback draw. You’ve got to fish it to be in it!

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Wake. Fish. Sleep. A fish camp photo diary ..... #flyfishing #chalkstream #angling

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After three beautiful wildies on the upper River Wylye in Wiltshire why would you not put your feet up? #angling #flyfishing #chalkstream #dryfly https://fishingbreaks.co.uk/chalkstream/wylye.htm#dever