Rivers
Chalkstreams, mountain freestoners and the great salmon rivers.
Chalkstreams
Crystal water, educated trout, and the hundred-year argument between Halford and Skues that nobody has won yet.
Upstream, zero drag, twenty-foot leaders
Alpine Streams
Cold, fast, and stonefly-rich — the mountain streams where the trout diet is seventy per cent aquatic insects and the Euro nymph was born.
EPT dominance: 70% of diet. Euro nymph, heavy point.
The Pyrenees
Wild brown trout from snowmelt torrents to gin-clear foothill rivers — French parcours in summer, Spanish trophy water in autumn.
French parcours no-kill. Spanish trophy autumn.
Irish Salmon Rivers
The Moy for value, the Blackwater for low water, and Galway Weir for the kind of drama that ruins you for ordinary fishing.
Moy for value. Blackwater for low water. Galway for drama.