Io8 SOUTH COUNTRY TROUT STREAMS 



"Ihc May-fly round Stockbridgc,'' Mr. Norman, 

 of the Houghton Club writes to me, " began to 

 decrease about twenty years ago, or just about the 

 time when the canal was converted into the Andover 

 and Rcdbridge Railway, and this is thought by 

 some people to be the cause of the diminution in 

 numbers of the insect. May-flies are still very 

 scarce round the town, and all attempts to re-intro- 

 duce them have hitherto failed, though there are 

 plenty now below this place. The grannom entirely 

 disappeared in the lower water. A few years ago 

 some gallons of eggs were collected in the upper 

 water and turned in below, with the result that 

 the grannom is now plentiful all over the 

 river. 



I may mention the following places as good 

 headquarters for the Test angler : — Overton, 

 Whitchurch ("White Hart"), Hurstbourne Priors 

 (for Bourne — " Portsmouth Arms "), Longparish 

 ("Plough"), Bransbury ("Crook and Shears"), 

 Bullington (for Micheldever branch of Test), Ful- 

 lerton (for Anton and Test), Andover (for Anton 

 —"White Hart," "Star," or "Junction Hotel"), 

 Stockbridge (" Grosvenor Hotel "), Mottisfont, 

 Romsey. 



The Itchen is, next to the Test, the most famous 

 chalk and dry fly stream in the South of England. 



The The Itchen rises a little south of Cheriton 

 Itchen Village and runs north to Alresford. It 

 then turns west and receives a small tributary 

 called the Arle which rises by Brown Candover 

 and flows through Lord Ashburton's place, Grange 

 Park. After receiving this stream, the Itchen runs 

 by Itchen Stoke, Itchen Abbas, Martyr Worthy, 

 and Abbots Worthy to Winchester. For a few 



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