Chalk stream Fishing

The chalk stream rivers of Southern England are the cradle of fly fishing and rightly hold an unrivalled place in fly fishing.

The gin clear waters run through what are still some of the most unspoilt water meadows, farmland and countryside in Britain.

The brown trout holds sway as the ultimate quarry in these rivers, where dry fly fishing remains the supreme method of out-witting our native fish.

The chalk streams spread across southern England in a westerly direction from the Sussex Ouse to the rivers Itchen & Test in Hampshire, up to the Kennet in Berkshire, down through the Avon, Nadder & Wylye in Wiltshire, across to the Frome and Piddle in Dorset.

Fishing Breaks has the widest a selection of private beats to let by the Day on all these rivers. We have fished all the beats ourselves, so you may be assured an honest and first hand account of each.

RIVER TEST Wherwell Priory The Parsonage Bullington Manor Nine Mile Water (Wallop Brook) Whitchurch Fulling Mill Mottisfont Abbey The Greyhound School Farm - River Dun (Test tributary) Dunbridge - River Dun (Test tributary) RIVER ITCHEN Upper Itchen Western Court RIVER WYLYE Boreham Mill RIVER LAMBOURN Donnington Grove RIVER NADDER Compton Chamberlayne

RIVER AVON Enford Church RIVER FROME Wrackleford RIVER PIDDLE Bere Regis RIVER KENNET Barton Court RIVER ALLEN Wimborne St. Giles RIVER OUSE NEW Great Bentley GRAYLING FISHING River Test River Lambourn RIVER BURE NEW Saxthorpe