As Mother Nature’s natural clock ticks around into another year, the daylight lengthens both morning and evening, and as most shooting seasons are done and dusted, the anglers in the sporting community start to think of another season, that of the brown trout. Few, if any, sporting quarry have had as many books written about them as the brown trout. Even as long ago as the latter part of the 1800s, some riverkeepers were rearing trout for the chalkstreams of Hampshire, such was the demand and pressure on the numbers of fish, and it is fair to say that demand has not diminished.
Indeed, such has been man’s desire to have this fish for company that he has taken it around the globe and in the main it has flourished,…
