io4 SOUTH COUNTRY TROUT STREAMS 



introduced from the Avon into the Test at Stock- 

 bridge during the present century, but no one 

 before last year ever knew that they had found 

 their way so far up stream as Testcombe.^ 



At Fullerton Bridge the Anton flows in. This Test 

 tributary has its two head waters a Httle north of 

 Andover by Enham and Foxcott villages. There 

 are a certain number of trout running up to as 

 much as i^ lbs. above Andover — thoup;h not now 

 very far above — and there are splendid spawning 

 grounds for the fish below what is known as Shep- 

 herd's Spring, which rises by Enham,^ a fair and 

 leafy land. It is below Andover, however, that 

 the angler may expect to get fairly among the 

 Anton trout, which are numerous, of a good size, 

 and fond of fly. The hatch of olive duns on the 

 Anton is thought to be more distributed, as it 

 were, over the whole dav than is the hatch on the 

 Test. The hatch of fly and the rise of trout, so far 

 as my Test experience goes, is certainly on the 

 waters about Longparish, for instance, a clearly 

 defined and a regular one. On some waters there 

 is a steady hatch and a rise of trout more or less 

 throughout the day, but the Test is not one of these 

 streams. 



The Anton receives the Anna or Pilhill Brook 

 at Longbridge. This tributary, which rises at 

 Fyfield, contains a good many trout. They rise 

 to the artificial fly well, and sometimes run up to 

 \\ lbs., but they are nowadays for the most part 



^ Some fine grayling may now be seen in a hole by the 

 Seven Stars Inn at Fullerton. 



2 Let not the angler, who has strayed so high up stream 

 as this point, neglect to see the pretty little church at 

 Enham. It is one of the oldest in the South of England. 



