132 SOUTH COUNTRY TROUT STREAMS 



taken up to 5 lbs. in weight. There is no May -fly 

 season, and the red spinner is the Naddcr fly in 

 which some anglers have the greatest faith. Hare's 

 ear, cow-dung, and the indispensable alder are used, 

 toG^ether with the chalk-stream duns. I am told 

 that below the junction of the Nadder with the 

 Wylye there are some fine grayling at Bemerton, 

 once the home of George Herbert the poet, where 

 the water is now well preserved. Tisbury, Dinton, or 

 Wilton may be mentioned as suitable headquarters, 

 the two latter places for the lower stretches of the 

 Nadder, and the first-named for the upper. The 

 club already referred to has some seven miles of 

 water above Tisbury. 



This stream is for its first few miles sometimes 

 called the Don, becoming the Nadder after the 

 little Sem joins it at West Hatch. 



The Ebble, a nice little chalk stream, rises at 

 Ebblesford Wake and flows into the (Christchurch) 



The Avon at Longford. It is about fourteen 

 Ebble miles in length, and passes Broad Chalk 

 and Tony Stratford. There are in particular some 

 excellent trout as well as grayling in the mile or so 

 of this stream below Nan ton Bridge, and just 

 before it joins the Avon. Flies — the usual chalk- 

 stream patterns of duns, &c. The Ebble is some- 

 times called the Chalk or Chalke Stream. Hoare 

 describes the Vale of Chalk as " the most 

 sequestered district in the county." 



The Porton Stream, Bourne, or Wintcrbourne, 

 joins the left bank — the Wylye and Ebble join on 



^j^g the right bank — of the Avon at Salisbury. 



Porton This stream is seldom visible above 



ream j^-jj-j^jg^Qj-,^ though about once every 



eight or nine years the springs rise at Southgrove, 



