The cool, clear waters of the Austrian rivers are fed by snow melt and springs, ideal for the salmonids they contain in diversity.
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Also tagged Arctic, Austria, Austrian, austrians, char, danube, diversity, fishermen, Fishing, fishing packages, grayling, Innsbruck, package, River, salmon, taimen, trout
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Start eating your carrots: some of the best fishing to be had in the summer months takes place after dark. Sea trout, the peripatetic siblings of the brown trout, return to the streams of their birth to spawn in the summer months.
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Also tagged bass, Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, droppers, fish, Fishing, Hampshire, Howard Day, Itchen, salmon, Sea Trout, Southern Counties, stream, Test, UK, wader, weight rods
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All of us need to escape the daily grind now and then, and flicking the fluff for mayfly-delirious brown trout is an addictive relaxant.
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, fish, fishery, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, Hampshire, hatching, Howard Day, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, Orvis, stream, Test, Trout. rainbow trout
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One of the local river keepers is taking issue with the Queen’s diet: she’s not eating enough swan and, unchecked by natural predators, the mute swan population is booming.
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Also tagged Chalkstreams, fish, fishery, Fishing, fly, Flyfishing, insect, invertebrate, Itchen, Keeper, mayfly, mayfly hatch, Over-grazing, preservation, rainbow trout, riverside, stream, swan, Test, weed
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Spring has sprung…well and truly in artesian style. All this rain has made fishing very challenging.
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Chalkstreams, fish, Fishing, Flyfishing, Hampshire, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, rain, spate, Test
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It’s been a funny kind of year for flies: almost no hawthorne, and straight into the mayfly hatch. Despite a stiff breeze, the mayfly started hatching about lunchtime on Tuesday, and trout took immediate notice.
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Also tagged Brown Trout, fly, Flyfishing, Howard Day, Itchen, mayfly, mayfly hatch, novices, Orvis, Test, UK
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It’s always rewarding to introduce someone to a new passion and pastime. This week we watched as builder extraordinare and all-round superhero Lee dipped his toe into the flyfishing pool by taking an evening lesson with me.
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Also tagged Adventures, angler, British, Country, fish, Fishing, Game, Howard Day, instruction, Orvis, sport, stream, Test, Trout. rainbow trout, UK
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Family-friendly Meon Springs provided the perfect setting for Orvis’ Cast and Blast, and the powers that be provided unbelievable weather despite the best efforts of the meteorologists to convice us otherwise.
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Also tagged bass, blog, Britain, British, Brown Trout, fish, Fishing, Howard Day, instruction, Itchen, largemouth, novices, Orvis, photography, Press, rainbow trout, riverside, salmon, Shoot, sport, sportspeople, stream, Test, Texas, trout, UK
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Orvis hosted its annual Open Day on the River Test at Kimbridge.
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Also tagged accommodation, bass, Fishing, freshwater, Howard Day, individuals, instruction, largemouth, novices, Orvis, Press, Southern Counties, sport, stream, Test, Texas, UK, USA, wilderness
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After a hectic few days shopping and pursuing hogs and quail, the pace slowed when we arrived in Golden, TX to stay with our friend Chris Wiesinger of Southern Bulbs at his little red cabin by the lake. The ‘lake’ is a 6 acre pond populated in equal number by turtles and largemouth bass.
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Also tagged accommodation, Adventures, bass, boar, boat, Britain, British, Cabelas, Country, fishery, Fishing, fluff, Flyfishing, Game, gun, hog, Howard Day, individuals, lake, largemouth, Orvis, package, Safari, Shooting, stream, Texas, USA, Walked-up, water, Wild
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