River Itchen - wild trout fishery

The upper reaches of the river Itchen is a wild trout fishery. Riparian owners do not stock with reared trout and the riverkeepers carefully maintain and encourage their wild stocks. This is the ultimate in dry fly fishing.

Pristine Itchen water	A hatch of olives	Carefully wading upstream to avoid damaging the weed and riverbed	The reward!
Wild English brown trout in mint condition.	MONSTER grayling!	brown trout	Yet another beautiful wild fish to the dry olive
......	Another fish is hooked over the fans of starwort - stunning water