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What a fantastic place to fish beautiful brown trout look after that beautiful river god bless from limerick Ireland 🇮🇪 😊tight lines

HY ,HAVE YOU INFORMATION OR WEB SITE FOR FISHING & SLEEPING LOCATION? THANKS

Beautiful Water

Thank you. How I can order a day ticket there?

Really enjoyed this. Thank you.

Nice! What’s the fishing in England like??

Wonderful Simon, Charles and I loved this!!

Wonderful video

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I loved the video. I'm ready!

Pięknie SUPER!!!!!!! 🙂👍

I was interested to hear from Simon that stocking became common policy on chalk streams in the 1830s , and his prediction as to the size of fish that would become the norm in chalk streams if stocking was stopped. That section reinforced how lucky we are in Devon to be able to fish for wild brown and sea trout.

As an angler and long time member of a fishing club I have had some very negative experiences with the EA in recent times. I think we have to now assume that our licence fee has gone the way of road tax, in other words, very little of our money will ever go on rivers again, if indeed it ever did. The EA are also becoming an anti-angling organisation, prioritising issues like beavers, abstraction and sewage disposal over the welfare of our rivers and their inhabitants. If you look at the wider picture, the entire experience of Borough and County Councils and government organisations is that they mostly now exist for their own benefit. They continuously complain about funding cuts, but what is the point of having a public body which has just enough cash to pay their own wages and pension contributions, but not enough to do what they are supposed to exist to do. I agree totally that all river users should pay for the privilege (and that money should be used exclusively for rivers) and if the EA should be replaced with an organisation which is willing and able to take on polluters and abstracters.

lovely to see this annual event and think of the chances with..salmo trutta. Great antidote to the hard difficult graft for salmon in low rivers in North West and Wales at present

Shortly after the war my grandfather was the river keeper on that stretch of the Nadder and lived in that mill, want to visit again one day

Can’t imagine it’s open access.

Plodding through with waders ! That should be criminal....

Angler and historian in the States here. Always interesting talks, thank you. My studies on the dry fly extended to well before Halford years ago. I thought that James Ogden and David Foster were always in contention for winning the development of the dry fly first trophy. The only reason one cannot be chosen over the other is that Ogden published “Ogden on Fly Tying” in 1879 as a complete original manuscript, while David Foster’s sons published “The Scientific Angler” in 1882 (American Edition 1883) from a collection of previous articles dating back to the 1840’s. Most of the historical info I have is that Foster is the first angler to lay out a system of dry fly fishing. However, Ogden clearly and ‘humbly’ writes on page iii in the preface of ‘Ogden on Fly Tying’, “It is well known that I am the inventor of Floating Flies, the Seat Basket, and the Spring Folding Landing Net”. How can you argue with that? For the money though, my bet goes with David Foster for the first codification of a system of dry fly fishing. I wonder why?

I have really enjoyed these but am sorry to see that this has been engineered to be controversial for the sake of it. You can do better than this.

Hi Simon, These conversations are fabulous, thank you for putting them out. As a fairly recent convert to fly fishing after a lifetime of coarse angling, it is refreshing to hear an honest conversation about fish welfare and social media. Much is made of fish welfare in the coarse/carp community with talk of unhooking mats and retention slings. However, I believe that in many cases, it is merely lip service to guard against scrutiny from the wider population, especially with the hyper-commercialisation and wide appeal of carp fishing in the modern day. I have always found it sad and frustrating to see the way our quarry are treated by anglers and especially, the length of time fish are kept out of the water, often being dropped or damaged and I fully agree with Charles with regards to his point about fishing for your own happiness rather than for the plaudits received from a nice picture on social media.

Fished it 40 years ago very beautiful piece of water when it was owned by Portals .

No other comments here, it’s not a question of inferior, in this country the rainbow is almost always a tame over fed fat lump of lard with no brain, no comparison with wild rainbows in USA which would be great. I would encourage people to fish for wild brown trout, and encourage fisheries to stop stocking which is bad for the wild fish and part of wrecking our streams and rivers. Tame rainbows are fine in lakes or reservoirs , not in rivers .

Love the casting. Mmmm

Thank you Gentlemen for a wonderfully thought provoking debate on these many items, I have unfortunately only been able to watch this via the recorded production, however, I can 100% concur with Charles on all his values of our beautiful sport, there was only one question, I do not think was aired, that I would loved to have put to Charles, which I am sure we would have disagreed on, maybe I will get a chance next time. Tight Lines, Steve.

So I rock up on your river beat looking for all the world like a fly fisher. Getting to the water, I take out a 4 meter telescopic pole, to which I’d attached a small float, cocked by some bulk shot under which are 3 well-known imitative flies. I wade out and trot the flies at dead drift speed in all the likely places. They are proper flies, but is it fly fishing?

Just makes the itch even worse! Can’t wait...(thanks for brilliant video!)

Strange this should pop up on my feed. I made a TH-cam vid of what looks like the same beat. Now available on day ticket from Manningford Trout Lakes.

Last time I was at Nether Wallop Mill was in the mid 70s when as a fairly gormless teenager I bought a rod from Dermot Wilson and had a few casts on the pond. I now live in Scotland but as soon as its legal and safe to travel I'd love to come back. Stay safe and hope to see you later this season.

Great series this. Really enjoying it. I try to get the live stream, but work get's in the way. Look forward to your book reading .............. and in May, fishing at Bullington

Glad I got to see this !

My Dad in his element. Whether pursuing his personal passion or sharing it with others, he was always happiest on the riverbank. Thanks for sharing it Simon.

Great to see Duncan in this video. A great guy to have known. RIP my friend.

It is a pretty special set of beats. Kept wild enough and deeply secluded. It's a joy to spend a day there.

Good stuff! Did Halford really give up or did he pan out to see the bigger picture? Tend the garden etc. On the subject of litter - blind to beauty of nature until they’re shown it was my original belief but the behaviour of some during lock down suggests something far more disturbing. Some fascinating little gems that you share in that discussion.

Excellent. I had hoped to have joined in the Zoom meeting but living in Chile as I do it started at 0800 so I was delighted to see the youtube version. Next time I will make the effort and get up. Reference the comment on lead shot. As an ex-wild fowler if I remember correctly, the ban was introduced to "prevent" ducks from eating the shot in mistake for seeds and causing them to die from lead poisoning.

Pity I could not attend... :-(

Beautiful!

Good to see Sim still plugging away ;)

Edit the music out and it will be much better.

Brilliant, a fantastic video. Can't wait to get back fishing !!

Really nicely done

very very expensive tickets no chance

Avington is much better than Dever! I always get my bag limit at Avington!

good job! nice video!

It's very refreshing to see someone in your profession actively supporting such an efficient competitor. You set an example I hope others will follow.

Looks great! Well done!

By coincidence I was fishing the Meon that very same day and can confirm how epically awful the weather was - I have never been so wet while fishing (except when falling in). Congratulations to all those who cheerfully defied the elements, and well done Simon for organising it.

Geoffrey Palmer is wearing the green sweater

The trout are wild? I see a "rainbow" this non-European "trout" imported from the US And not a brown has the same color or appearance as any wild trout has an identical appearance when they are wild! It is time for this mytic river to become what it once was 100 years ago, not a millionaire fisher's tourist attraction.

very cool, great piece of film, if we want to inspire the next generation of anglers this is the way to communicate with them.