If you fix it they will run
The beautiful River Welland meanders quietly along the bottom of a wide valley, running for long stretches through the Burghley Estate. From its source in the Hothorpe Hills in Northamptonshire, it flows gently for around 100km to the Wash on the east coast. The run varies from slow, deep pools to faster-flowing riffles across gravel beds and all the while, banks are grazed by livestock and the water is often overlooked by willow trees.
It has been a little project of mine since I started working at Burghley a few years ago to explore and fish the entire length of the estate’s river. Many evenings have now been spent searching out fresh pools and hunting for the spots where some of the large brown trout like to lie up. I spent three evenings through the mayfly season this year stalking
