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The Broadlands Estate is one of the most famous names in fishing, renowned the world over for the River Test flowing through the estate that was the home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The unique Nissen Hut, a welcome retreat for all Broadlands anglers, is lined with photographs and fish, trophies of visits by royalty, diplomats and film stars.

This is a fine section of the River Test; wide, fast, varied and open, renowned for big brown trout, sea trout and the occasional salmon. There are three beats on the main River Test and two beats on the long carriers, all carefully looked after by the resident keeper, Jon Hall.

The main river beats take up to three rods and each of the two carriers two rods each. On some days it is possible to combine fishing on both for a small party so you may swap between the beats at will.

April 4-May 12

£165 per Rod

May 13-June 9

£247 per Rod

June 10-July 31 

£165 per Rod

August 1-October 14

£145 per Rod

 
  

River Test

In every respect, the River Test is the pre-eminent chalk stream. Physically, it is the longest: 39 miles from source to estuary. Historically, it is generally regarded as the birthplace of modern fly fishing. In literature, Halford, Plunkett Greene and Skues, to name but a few immortalised the Test in their fishing writings.

The Test rises in north Hampshire in the hamlet of Ashe, not Overton as generally supposed. It then travels on a south-west curve, growing in width and flow as first the Bourne, and then the Dever and the Anton join the main river.

At no point in it’s first 35 miles can the Test be regarded as one river; it is an amalgam of the main channel, tributaries, carriers that have been man-made for water meadow irrigation, side streams, mill channels and feeders. At some points two, three or even four streams run parallel. All are fishable and such is the nature of the river that it is often hard to deduce which is main river and which is carrier.

On through the sheep grazed valley the river flows, seemingly every sleepy, thatched village on it’s journey having some part of fly fishing history. Below Stockbridge the river becomes appreciably bigger, in places too wide to cast across. Then the Wallop Brook and the Dun join the main river and it is only south of Romsey, a few miles from the sea that the River Test finally becomes one single channel. 

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