Fly Fishing Venues Articles

Return to Eastwell Park

After a winter spent indoors suffering the cold weather I finally ventured out for my first fishing trip of the new trout season. Read More

Chalk Springs, Arundel

Hidden within walking distance of the town of Arundel in West Sussex and overlooked by the castle is the famous trout fishery ‘Chalk Springs’. Read More

Hanningfield Reservoir, Chelmsford, Essex

Why do I travel north from my home in East Sussex where I’m surrounded by excellent trout fisheries to cross the Thames to go fly fishing?... Read More

Powdermill Resevoir May 2009

If you go down in the woods in May your sure of a big surprise because hidden there is the most beautiful trout fishery I know Powdermill Reservoir... Read More

Arlington Reservoir April 2009

Nestling under the South Downs, just north of Eastbourne, Arlington reservoir is one of my favourite venues to fish during the spring, my love affair with this water started several years ago and what brings me back time and again? The hard fighting rainbows that rise freely to the abundant fly life... Read More

Eastwell Park Trout Fishery

Eastwell Park Trout Fishery is set in parkland just outside Ashford Kent. The mature 40 acre lake is fed by three chalk streams the water was clear enough to enable me to see the bottom in depths of 4-6 feet on my visit.... Read More

Chalybeate Springs

This beautiful 2 acre lake is set in parkland on the Eridge Estate just south of Tunbridge Wells and the new owner Michael Evans aims to provide top quality fly fishing in peaceful surroundings..... Read More

Bewl Water

I've always considered Bewl to be my "home water" living within walking distance of the reservoir as I do. Over the years I've spent countless hours fishing its banks and more recently boat fishing it. I've fished there every year since its inception twenty seasons ago, in the early years I fished it exclusively but as the years have rolled by I've wandered around the south's many and varied trout fisheries..... Read More

Powdermill Reservoir

Powdermill Reservoir is probably the most attractive of all the trout reservoirs certainly in this area. It is unique and at 56 acres intimate with its small bays, overhanging trees and miles away from any main road. For those who haven’t visited it they are missing out, it is tucked away somewhere between Brede and Sedlescombe deep in the East Sussex countryside and to approach it you must drive down tiny country lanes.... Read More

Arlington Reservoir

Arlington press day gave me the chance to fish with Andy Lush of the Friendly Fishermen again, an experience I look forward to with relish. Andy is far better fly fisherman than me and when I fish with him I usually pick up a tip, or two and the trip to Arlington was no different..... Read More